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Solved! Re: old handicam movie camera and kino



On Sunday 29 August 2021 10:16:01 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 09:56:43AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > That wasn't the magic twanger Greg.
>
> but he was up the right path. /dev/dsp is part of the (by now
> archaeological) OSS sound interface.
>
> To make /dev/dsp "appear", you need a kernel module faking it.
>
> For me, "sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss" does that trick [1]. Catting
> /etc/passwd to it actually produces some sound, albeit the accent
> is a bit... slithery ;-)

And was an endless machine gun until ctl+c'd here. cat should have ended 
at some point but I let it hammer for a good minute.  Then sound in kino 
worked, quite well in fact.

> Perhaps that'll do for you, perhaps you'll need additional modules.
>
> Proceed with fingers crossed.

Works fine, thank you guys.
>
> Cheers
>  - t


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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