Hi, I cant get alsa OSS emulation layer to work on my Woody box. My soundcard is a SB 128 (es1371 chip). After reading the FAQ, the BTS and some google attempts, i desperately hope someone can tell me what i am missing!
1) alsa native layer: it works. I managed alsa native layer to work by installing the kernel-image and alsa-modules packages: aplay plays correctly audio files. Until then everyting was fine (I had to patch alsaconf as described in #96427 to get it work though). 2) alsa oss emulation: something goes wrong... I put startosslayer=true in my /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf, and restarted /etc/init.d/alsa. All the needed modules are loaded: Module Size Used by Tainted: P snd-seq-midi 3232 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 23264 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 2920 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 37196 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 35744 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss 9184 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-ens1371 9728 0 snd-pcm 48576 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-card-ens1371] snd-timer 10432 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 12576 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-card-ens1371] snd-seq-device 3968 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 23232 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd 25352 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] But OSS apps do not work (ie simple tools like bplay do not get any sound output). aplay still works though. So i begin to wonder if alsa oss layer works with these packages on my configuration. I have some questions now: - Can i expect to have better results if i recompile the kernel from source? - May VIA card has an ac97 sound chip in it . Sound module snd-ac97-codec loads itself even if i did not ask him to (no reference in /etc/modutils/alsa, nor /etc/modules.conf). Why? Can it explain some of my problems? Configuration: Hardware: SB 128 (es1371 chip), Athlon main processor Packages: ii kernel-image-2.4.16-k7 2.4.16-1 ii alsa-modules-2.4.16-k7 0.9+0beta10+1+2.4.16+1 Thank you, Xavier de Labouret
