On Mon, July 11, 2005 1:59 pm, Richard Fish said: > Bruno Gola wrote: > >>Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: >> >> >> >>>are using arts, esd or something similar?? What output plugin you use >>>in xmms that allows you to listen to mp3s? >>> >>>On 7/11/05, Bruno Gola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Can't open /dev/dsp! >>>> >>>> >>>>If i try it as root it works perfectly... >>>> >>>>Does anyone knows this problem? >>>> >>>>Thanks ... >>>> >>>>Bruno Gola >>>>-- >>>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >>>> >>>> >>>> >>Both ESD and ALSA output plugin works for me with xmms.... >> >> >> > > If something is trying to open /dev/dsp, then it is using the (obsolete) > OSS API. You need to enable OSS emulation in the kernel drivers. >
In the Linux kernel it may be deprecated but OSS is not obsolete. Other operating systems besides Linux need sound after all :). > Note that, AFAIK, there is no mixing possible with the OSS API. Your It does support mixing. -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
