I am able to get OSS apps to play sounds by invoking them with the "aoss"
wrapper, e.g.:
aoss esd
aoss frozen-bubble
In the past, I didn't have to use the aoss wrapper to get OSS apps to
work. Can anyone suggest an explanation for why I do now?
Thanks,
Rich
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Rich Drewes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My Alsa OSS emulation isn't working and I don't know where to begin to try
> to diagnose the problem. All appropriate kernel modules seem to be
> installed and all necessary support libraries seem to be present (see
> below for versions). When an OSS sound app tries to play sound, it
> freezes and sometimes returns an error similar to the following (for a
> game using SDL OSS interface):
>
> "SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)
> audio: Bad file descriptor"
>
> When I exeucte "aplay testsound.wav" it plays find, but "strace -f play
> testsound.wav": hangs:
>
> . . .
> [pid 16226] open("testsound.wav", O_RDONLY) = 3
> [pid 16226] fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1411244, ...}) = 0
> [pid 16226] fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1411244, ...}) = 0
> [pid 16226] mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40018000
> [pid 16226] read(3, "RIFF\244\210\25\0WAVEfmt
> \20\0\0\0\1\0\1\0D\254\0\0\210"..., 4096) = 4096
> [pid 16226] _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0
> [pid 16226] read(3, "RIFF\244\210\25\0WAVEfmt
> \20\0\0\0\1\0\1\0D\254\0\0\210"..., 4096) = 4096
> [pid 16226] _llseek(3, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0
> [pid 16226] _llseek(3, 1409024, [1409024], SEEK_SET) = 0
> [pid 16226] read(3,
> "P\20\341\17\351\16\222\r\37\f,\v;\v\33\f\0\r]\rC\r\377"..., 4096) = 2220
> [pid 16226] read(3, "", 4096) = 0
> [pid 16226] _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0
> [pid 16226] read(3, "RIFF\244\210\25\0WAVEfmt
> \20\0\0\0\1\0\1\0D\254\0\0\210"..., 44) = 44
> [pid 16226] open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666
> [never returns]
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to identify the problem? Native Alsa apps work
> great. OSS emulation has worked in the past.
>
> Here are the version details:
>
> # lsmod | grep snd
> snd-seq-oss 31232 0
> snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss
> snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
> snd-pcm-oss 51812 0
> snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss
> snd-intel8x0 32776 0
> snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-intel8x0
> gameport 4480 1 snd-intel8x0
> snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-intel8x0
> snd-usb-audio 64672 0
> snd-rawmidi 23616 2 snd-mpu401-uart,snd-usb-audio
> snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi
> snd-pcm 93156 3 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-usb-audio
> snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm
> snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
> snd 52484 13
> snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-usb-audio,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm,snd-timer
> soundcore 9248 3 snd,audio
> usbcore 99132 7 hid,snd-usb-audio,pwc,audio,uhci-hcd
>
> # cat /proc/asound/version
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.2c (Thu Feb 05
> 15:41:49 2004 UTC).
> Compiled on Mar 2 2004 for kernel 2.6.3-4mdk.
>
> # rpm -qa | grep libalsa-oss
> libalsa-oss0-devel-1.0.2-3mdk
> libalsa-oss0-1.0.2-3mdk
>
> Should I get off the bleeding edge?
>
> Thanks!
> Rich Drewes
>
>
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