SOLVED: Re: 2.6.x sound woes

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Something occured to me as i was battling this.  Apparently the
>>application needs to know how to talk 'alsa'.  I was using an old version
>>of xmms (for example) that pre-dated alsa, and only knew how to do OSS.  I
>>just built xmms-1.2.10, selected the ALSA plugin and BAM, i've got musical
>>goodness.  Now i just need to see if rebuilding mpg123 will work too.
> 
> 
> well no dice.  mpg123 seems to be too much of a dinosaur to work with alsa
> directly.  i'll be sad to see it go, its served me well for nearly 10
> years across 4 OS's.

Don't say farewell too early - you can have it with alsa oss emulation 
(see my posting some minutes ago).
Klaus