On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Michel Salim wrote:
On 09/09/2007, Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop@xxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
2. Use alsa-oss to allow Firefox (or its plugins) play sound. AFAIK they
use OSS now, which will fail in most cases, because /dev/dsp is almost
constantly in use by arts/esd/whatever.
Last time I tried, on a 64-bit platform you can not use alsa-oss with
32-bit Firefox. Still nice if you happen to be running at the native
wordsize, though.
Last time you tried might have been before I fixed aoss to allow for
that. :-)
The aoss script first checks if you have the 64-bit library, and by
default uses that. *Unless* you incant it with the first argument of
"-32", in which case it'll check if you have the 32-bit library, and if
so, use it instead (and error out if not, which may be a bit unhelpful if
it's initiated by a GUI).
If it doesn't detect a 64-bit alsa-oss-libs, it assumes you have the
32-bit ones (as the package containing the script depends on *one* of
them).
I committed these changes to alsa-oss on February 8th, FWIW, due to
BZ#221711 and Jason Tibbitts' recommendations (via IRC).
Apparently I may have broken the aoss man page. The script could
probably use a -h flag, too. Not sure if it'd be in bad taste to fix
those before F8 without an open bug.
Jima
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