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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Sound under 2.6.1
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:37:45 +0100

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:13:32PM +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:37:16PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > I also noticed that my /dev/dsp* entries are gone, but that is only after
> > rebooting after Unet's changes to alsa-driver. If I recast the spell, the
> > entries come back until I reboot. However, you're not using alsa-driver,
> > you're
> > using the kernel-supplied ALSA, yes?
> Yes, I have the kernel-supplied ones. I did recast alsa-driver, but it
> didn't actually appear to install anything of use (its install log
> pasted below). I guess I could recompile with with OSS emulation
> enabled, but there should be an alsa way to do things that should work
> for everything, and I'd be better off figuring that out I think.

You have to enable OSS emulation to have everything work. Every program
that tries to use /dev/dsp is using OSS, there are still lots of
programs that don't support alsa directly.

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