Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Abraham Al-Saleh <alsaleha@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: gstreamer, alsasink, and via82xx
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:42:55
Message-Id: 8ae67b9c041023204255203bd6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Re: gstreamer, alsasink, and via82xx by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 I'm saying I don't want to use OSS. ;)
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4 On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:21:07 -0700, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
5 > Abraham Al-Saleh posted <8ae67b9c041023172276e5e970@××××××××××.com>,
6 > excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:22:01 -0600:
7 >
8 > > Easy enough for my desktop, but my problem is that my laptop has the
9 > > same sound card, and it won't work either. Does anyone know the cause of
10 > > this, or perhaps a workaround/fix (other than using oss, that's not an
11 > > option)
12 >
13 > I'm not sure what you are saying isn't an option, here, but you don't have
14 > to be actually running OSS. Just compile the OSS compatibility modules
15 > for ALSA, and apps should be able to use either or both depending on what
16 > they /can/ use. That has generally worked here (altho I /did/ have
17 > problems with any of the fancy ARTS stuff in Mandrake for AMD64, ARTS
18 > itself would run, but any time I tried any effects or anything it would go
19 > mute, and noatun and the like apparently used the same sort of effects so
20 > didn't work either, tho xmms and system sound effects played just fine
21 > thru ARTS -- I haven't had the problem on Gentoo, tho I'm not using that
22 > card).
23 >
24 > --
25 > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
26 > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
27 > temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
28 > Benjamin Franklin
29 >
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37 Abe Al-Saleh
38 And then came the Apocolypse. It actually wasn't that
39 bad, everyone got the day off and there were barbeques
40 all around.
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