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Hello, list. |
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Since I've scrapped my old miniITX home router / server, I've missed |
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the ability to use speakers from laptop via wifi and esd/pulse, since |
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new machine doesn't have bult-in sound card. |
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Today I've got PCI-E Creative XFi Xtreme Audio, which, as far as I can |
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see isn't on alsa or creative open driver support list, but is |
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supported by OSS. |
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I'd be quite happy if someone can prove me wrong about this matter, btw, |
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since I have virtually no experience with OSS. |
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To the point: |
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AFAIK OSS in gentoo resides in oss-overlay, which I try to add with |
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standard 'layman -a oss-overlay': |
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root@damnation:~# layman -a oss-overlay |
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* Running command "/usr/bin/hg clone "http://hg.atheme.org/users/majeru/portage-overlay/" "/usr/portage/local/layman/oss-overlay""... |
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real URL is http://hg.atheme.org/ |
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abort: requirement '<!-- quirksmode -->' not supported! |
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* Failed to add overlay "oss-overlay". |
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So, it's some weird hg (mercurial) error, and google is eerie silent on |
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the matter. Same 'hg clone' with '--debug' flag (the easiest way I've |
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found to debug hg) yields the same error with just two additional lines |
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before it: |
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Requested URL: 'http://hg.atheme.org/users/majeru/portage-overlay/?pairs=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000-0000000000000000000000000000000000000000&cmd=between' |
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(falling back to static-http) |
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That said, overlay can be freely browsed via web interface and looks |
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like pretty much alive to me. Mercurial don't seem to have any relevant |
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use-flags, but I've no experience working with it. Layman works fine for |
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several other (git and svn, not hg) overlays. |
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I'm sorry that the message got that fat, but the questions are these: |
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- What might be wrong with the overlay, layman or hg? |
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- Is there any other natural way to install basic tools like ossmixer |
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and osstest on gentoo, aside from cloning the ebuilds by hand? |
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- Should I even consider using OSS in gentoo, or it's mostly |
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unsupported already (all I really need is esd or pulse daemon on top |
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of it)? |
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- Prehaps someone know a way to make this sound card work with alsa? |
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Thanks in advance. |
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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net |
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