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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:37:51
Message-Id: ba894d48-dd54-f842-7db7-5fd3555c3a36@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox) by Adam Carter
1 On 2020-02-19 10:48, Adam Carter wrote:
2 > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:06 PM <n952162@×××.de
3 > <mailto:n952162@×××.de>> wrote:
4 >
5 > I can't play audio from my VBox.  The host system only plays audio
6 > through the second sound card (1).  The VBox offers me OSS or the
7 > null driver. The Alsa and pulseaudio pages  say OSS is
8 > "deprecated".   Is Oracle out of the picture?  I can't find the
9 > straight dope.
10 >
11 > Do I have to convince VBox to talk to a different sound card?
12 >
13 > Which vbox version and what are your use flags?
14 >
15 > FWIW, for me;
16 > app-emulation/virtualbox-6.1.2::gentoo was built with the following:
17 > USE="alsa opengl opus pam pulseaudio qt5 sdk udev -debug -doc -dtrace
18 > -headless -java -libressl -lvm -pax_kernel -python -vboxwebsrv -vnc"
19 > ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6 -python2_7 -python3_7
20 > -python3_8" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 -python3_7 -python3_8"
21 >
22 > So i can use ALSA or pulse.
23
24
25 Okay, that's a good tip.  I'll try those use flags - I have none set.
26
27 I'm at virtualbox-5.2.32, which I just emerged in the last couple of
28 days, using this profile:
29
30     [16]  default/linux/amd64/17.1 (stable) *

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