Re: Sound devices.

[peter@easthope.ca]

*	From: deloptes deloptes@gmail.com
*	Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:24:25 +0100
> I am not 100% sure but I think you need 
> alsa-oss - ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
> to be able to use dsp.

root@dalton:/home/peter# dpkg -l | grep alsa-oss
ii  alsa-oss  1.0.28-1  i386  ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
  
root@dalton:/home/peter# lsmod | grep oss
[nothing]

*	From: Michael Lange klappnase@freenet.de
*	Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:12:38 +0100
> probably the snd-pcm-oss driver is not loaded and thus /dev/dsp does not
> exist.

root@dalton:/home/peter# modprobe snd-pcm-oss
root@dalton:/home/peter# lsmod | grep oss
snd_pcm_oss            45056  0
snd_mixer_oss          24576  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                86016  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio
snd                    57344  17 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss,snd_usb_aud
io,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm

[Better;  but shouldn't modules load automatically?]

root@dalton:/home/peter# grep audio /etc/group
audio:x:29:peter,pulse
root@dalton:/home/peter# exit
peter@dalton:~$ cat /usr/share/sounds/ekiga/ring.wav > /dev/dsp
[Horrible screeching noise.  (Easrphones burned out?  Maintainer laughing?)]

peter@dalton:~$ mplayer /usr/share/sounds/ekiga/ring.wav
[Telephone bell ring.]

??

Thanks,                ... Peter E.
                


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