Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] OSS Audio Gone Again

[Damien Sandras <damien sandras it-optics com>]

Le jeu 08/01/2004 à 13:53, George a écrit :
> Yes, but I'm not calling those modules! Everything dealing with ALSA is
> commented out in my modules.config file. So they must be being loaded
> from somewhere else.


A script in the /etc/init.d arborescence (I think the path is different
on redhat)

> 
> To be honest, I'm not very fond of ALSA. I found it very hard to find
> any descent documentation. I had to search the web extensively to find
> much of anything. Also, the card matrix on ALSA's site is way behind the
> the card modules that are actually being shipped with the ALSA packages.
> I just happened to find my maestro3 driver in my kernel modules
> directory.
> 

I agree, but I'm sure it will improve now that ALSA is the new default
and that OSS is deprecated. ALSA quality is far better than OSS one in
terms of full-duplex/recording.

> The only thing that I could get working with ALSA is the ALSA mixer and
> xmms with the ALSA plugin, although xmms's volume control wouldn't work
> with it.

Then GnomeMeeting with the ALSA plugin would have worked too :)

> 
> On a good note, GM CVS is still working now with the OSS driver.
> 

Good :)

> Below is my ALSA Setup. 
> 
> # Sound Setup ALSA
> # ALSA portion
> #alias char-major-116 snd
> #alias snd-card-0 snd-maestro3
> # module options should go here
>                                                                                                                               
> #alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
> #alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
> #alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
>                                                                                                                               
> # OSS/Free portion
> #alias char-major-14 soundcore
> #alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>                                                                                                          
> # card #1
> #alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> #alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> #alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> #alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> #alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>                                                                                                                               
> post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> 
> 

Here is mine :
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
 
options snd major=116 cards_limit=4
 
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
 
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
 
alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0
alias snd-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-slot-1 snd-slot-1


> 
> > Those are the normal ALSA modules without OSS emulation....
> > So you should have native ALSA nearly available with that (the module
> > specific to your card is not loaded though)
> > 
> > Le jeu 08/01/2004 à 12:43, George a écrit :
> > > > > Something that I find strange though is that after putting my system
> > > > > back to using OSS, lsmod shows some of the ALSA modules even
> > > > > though ALSA isn't being called.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > What modules are loaded?
> > > 
> > > snd-usb-audio          56288   0  (unused)
> > > snd-pcm                84736   0  [snd-usb-audio]
> > > snd-page-alloc          9748   0  [snd-pcm]
> > > snd-timer              19812   0  [snd-pcm]
> > > snd-rawmidi            18656   0  [snd-usb-audio]
> > > snd-seq-device          6236   0  [snd-rawmidi]
> > > snd                    46596   0  [snd-usb-audio snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
> > > 
> > > 
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