Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ALSA OSS Emulation to work

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/16/05, Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:55:58 -0700
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Nick,
> >    Interesting. I have something like 8 Gentoo machines I run Alsa on.
> > All of them use OSS emulation at least partially. I do not remember
> > any messages or guidance to do what you're say, but indeed, it makes
> > sense, sort of... Unfortunately, it seems that emerge didn't tell me
> > to do this or, if it did, then the messages were lost in an endless
> > stream of compile text while doing an emerge world.
> >
> >    I suppose I really don't like this way of doing it since it now
> > makes Alsa set up for Gentoo different from what is specified on the
> > Alsa pages. It also seems that the /etc/conf.d/alsasound page may not
> > give me as much control in my systems where I'm using multiple sound
> > cards. I'll have to review that more carefully.
> >
> >    Humm... Are there any new online instructions that specify all these changes?
>
> I didn't find any, i figured it out for myself.
>
> I posted to this list, then found the solution then posted a SOLVED
> message almost staright away, a week or 2 back.
>

Nick,
   Sorry for not seeing the post or the work you were doing in this
area. I haven't been reading this list in depth lately.

   As I say, I think the capabilities provided here by the Gentoo devs
look good, but I get the feeling there maybe wasn't so much thought
given to multiple sound card systems. For instance, if I have an
expensive sound card in a system which also has an on-board sound
chip, then maybe I want Alsa support for both devices, but OSS support
only for the second card. Game audio, etc., goes there while recording
studio audio goes through the high-end card using Jack. This allows me
to run Jack through the first card while I run OSS through the second.
The first card goes to external D/A & A/D converters. The OSS audio
goes out of the machine as analog and into an external A/D to get
resynced with Jack. How do I do this? (I.e. - I can do it easily with
the sort of configuration I presented earlier.)

Thanks,
Mark

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