Hi All,

I have just had success with getting sound to play on my OI system !!!!

I had to logout and then back in after setting the AUDIODEV, I guess.

Thanks for all of the help.
Lonnie :)


On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:45 PM Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> I have been poking around on my new OpenIndiana and it seems that my audio
> is also located on /dev/sound/1
>
> How can I get a configuration somewhere sow that the system uses it
> instead of trying to use /dev/sound/0
>
> I put AUDIODEV=/dev/sound/1 in my profile but that does not seem to help
> Cheers,
> Lonnie
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 9:46 AM Gary Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:49:15AM +0000, Alexander Pyhalov via
>> openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>
>> > I've looked through your patches, attached to
>> > https://www.illumos.org/issues/9732 and have one big question. We've
>> > switched from mod_solaris to mod_oss precisely for this reason -
>> > when mod_oss is used, pulseaudio presents user a list of devices to
>> > choose from and mate-volume-control provides GUI for this.
>>
>> Did this actually work?  I have three systems with dual audio devices,
>> but I've never seen the GUI.  Pulseaudio just sent the audio to the
>> first device, /dev/sound/0, which happened to be the wrong one.
>>
>> > When it
>> > is not used, it's unclear how user should select audio device. So
>> > I'm a bit surprised that you want to switch pulseaudio to
>> > mod_solaris (which, as I understand, your changes do). Please,
>> > explain your reasons for preferring this module.
>>
>> I didn't do any switching, at least not intentionally.  I didn't know
>> that you had switched.  When was this?  The problem with mod_oss is
>> that it's only suitable for Linux.  I understand that Linux OSS was
>> based on Solaris OSS, but the two have since diverged and become
>> quite different.  The upshot is that Linux OSS is not compatible with
>> illumos OSS.
>>
>> The way to select the audio device is to set AUDIODEV in your
>> environment.  For example, I have this in my .profile file:
>>
>>     AUDIODEV=/dev/sound/1
>>
>> The name is also exported in that file.  This technique also works for
>> the /bin/audio* commands.
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Gary Mills-            -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba,
>> Canada-
>>
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>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Lonnie T. Cumberland, PhD.
> Email: [email protected]
>


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Best Regards,

Lonnie T. Cumberland, PhD.
Email: [email protected]
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