On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, stan wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: > > -snip- >> At that point, you are running "real" OSS, not the ALSA OSS emulation, >> and the "mplayer -ao oss foo.wav" should work again (aplay nor alsamixer >> would anymore). This stands a fair chance of getting you sound at that >> point. If it does not, please find an OSS mixer (aumix, rexima, or >> anything you already have installed that can be switched into OSS mode) >> to make really, really sure it still doesn't work... >> >> Rene > I have a question about this. When I look in the alsa driver sources, I > see that the modules snd-pcm-oss, snd-seq-oss, soundcore, snd, etc. are > all within this ALSA code. Does your statement above about "real" OSS > imply that this code is actually legacy OSS incorporated within the ALSA > driver tree? All the documentation seems to imply that this is > emulation code. When I look in the OSS item in make menuconfig for the This is emulation code. It is a wrapper layer which converts oss calls to alsa calls. > kernel, it is just legacy drivers. So I wanted to get clarification of > my understanding from someone who knows. Just had a thought; is the > OSS driver self contained, meaning that it contains the functionality > now in alsa-lib as well as the driver? That would explain everything. Yes, the old oss code was self contained. > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
