SOLVED: Re: 2.6.x sound woes

[Net Llama!]

On 03/16/04 14:51, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:

> 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).

Yea, but OSS emulation isn't going to be around forever.  Its already a 
deprecated feature in 2.6.


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