Bill Unruh wrote: > 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 Bill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
