Hi all, How do I change my setup so that it does not uses ALSA but OSS as sound manager on boot? Thanks, Sergio
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:05, Sergio Dominguez wrote:
Hi all,
How do I change my setup so that it does not uses ALSA but OSS as sound manager on boot?
Thanks,
Sergio
Why? OSS is Dead. Alsa is essentially the new standard, and has lots of nice features too. -Daniel -- The Meek shall inherit the Earth, for the Brave are among the Stars!
Why then in the new kernels 2.4. there is no more ALSA and only OSS (not in the SUSE one, in the official ones) Sergio A las 07:32 del 16 de Sep de 2003, Daniel Joyce <daniel.a.joyce@worldnet.att.net> dijo:
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:05, Sergio Dominguez wrote:
Hi all,
How do I change my setup so that it does not uses ALSA but OSS as sound manager on boot?
Thanks,
Sergio
Why? OSS is Dead. Alsa is essentially the new standard, and has lots of nice features too.
-Daniel
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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 8:38 am, Sergio Dominguez wrote:
Why then in the new kernels 2.4. there is no more ALSA and only OSS (not in the SUSE one, in the official ones)
Because ALSA was introduced in the 2.6 kernel (as a standard item)
Sergio
A las 07:32 del 16 de Sep de 2003, Daniel Joyce <daniel.a.joyce@worldnet.att.net> dijo:
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 05:05, Sergio Dominguez wrote:
Hi all,
How do I change my setup so that it does not uses ALSA but OSS as sound manager on boot?
Thanks,
Sergio
Why? OSS is Dead. Alsa is essentially the new standard, and has lots of nice features too.
-Daniel
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 September 2003 07:38, Sergio Dominguez wrote:
Why then in the new kernels 2.4. there is no more ALSA and only OSS (not in the SUSE one, in the official ones)
Sergio
Alsa isn't included in the vanilla 2.4.x kernels. It is officially scheduled for the 2.6 series as the official sound mods and eventually OSS will be phased out and any OSS compatibility that's needed will be via the ALSA mods. As far as SuSE kernels including the ALSA kernel mods, this is due to the fact that SuSE folds in the 2.5/2.6 stuff into their kernels. SuSE's dev team has a few of the kernel devs on it so they can more easily fold in these features. Case in point. Look at the 2.4.21-x kernels from SuSE and compare them between the 2.4 vanilla and the 2.6 test5 kernel. You most likely see a fair amount of features from the 2.6 series. Unfortunately, things like the emu-tools for SBLive cards require OSS. There is a way to get it to work with ALSA but it takes a fairly knowledgable hacker to tweek the source (i.e. alsa and priviate session block out the emu-tools - hence no go). As far as some programs that still insist on requiring the OSS mods, this is upto the devs of that specific package to update them for ALSA compatiiblity. If the project is fallow (not maintained) then it's not likely to happen (which can be a real downer since some older packages were pretty cool and are fading away). Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Zy+OiqnGhdjCOJsRAk0/AJ97B8RLYk4GUDwawlnMCdsq+xCPewCbBD9y T7kzlSVbEmuh7A7/LxcUlQk= =w3sZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Sound is the one bug bear I have with Linux. [rant] It seems to me that its all down to the roll of the dice as to whether it works or not. If it don't work straight off then its a 60/40 chance it never will. [end rant] Still can't get any sound out of my Hercules Fortissimo II. Have checked and recompiled the Kernal making sure my sound card is selected and the module installed, loaded the latest version of Alsa RPMS. The only thing I can't do is compile and install the ALSA source as for some reason 8.2 barfs when I try to do this. Gonna have to go back to Mandrake if I can't sort it as I can't get by without sound. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: vicarofwibley@jabber.org YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 9:51pm up 11:04, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:00:01 +0100 John Willby <john@thewillbys.com> wrote:
The only thing I can't do is compile and install the ALSA source as for some reason 8.2 barfs when I try to do this.
What errors are you getting? Charles -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu, Mark Komarinski)
What errors are you getting?
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.6/pcmcia' /sbin/depmod -a 2.4.20-4GB -F /lib/modules/2.4.20-64GB-SMP/build/System.map depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/media/radio/miropcm20.o if [ -L /usr/include/sound ]; then \ rm -f /usr/include/sound; \ ln -sf /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.6/include/sound /usr/include/sound; \ else \ rm -rf /usr/include/sound; \ install -d -m 755 -g root -o root /usr/include/sound; \ for f in include/sound/*.h; do \ install -m 644 -g root -o root $f /usr/include/sound; \ done \ fi install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' install: invalid group `root' <snip> install: invalid group `root' make: *** [install-headers] Error 1 :-( -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: vicarofwibley@jabber.org YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 7:02am up 20:14, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
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