Re: [SLUG] OSS Compatibility with ALSA

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 22:24:10 EDT


> I recently updated the kernel on my Red Hat 9 system to 2.6.0-test6.
> It's much faster and I'm happy with the new modules (W9966 especially)
> but I've been having some difficulty getting OSS Applications (games
> mainly) to work with ALSA. I've compiled the compatibility libraries and
> made the appropriate symlinks in /dev, but I'm still getting "No device"
> errors when applications try to open /dev/dsp. I've read the man pages
> on aoss, but they seem to be a little lacking and I was wondering if
> someone could clarify a solution to this problem. Thanks.

Be sure to load the snd-pcm-oss (and snd-seq-oss if you use the sequencer)
module(s). Or compile them in, if that's how you did the rest of the alsa
modules.

Levi
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