Re: Switching from OSS to Alsa

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:00:22 +0100, Tong wrote:
>>> xmms -- no card found.
>>>
>>> mplayer -- Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.


Given that you have the -oss modules loaded this is surprising.  Perhaps
the permissions on the device files are not set correctly.

Here are other things to try.

Reconfigure these programs to output to ALSA.  E.g., in xmms, go to

   Options|Preferences|Audio I/O Plugins|Output Plugin

and select "ALSA output plugin".

If you are running esd then you should select "eSound output plugin"
here instead.

If this does not work for some reason then select "OSS Driver" and re-run
OSS using the aoss program loader (in the alsa-oss package):

    aoss xmms

aoss emulates the OSS interface in a userspace library.


-- 
Thomas Hood