[Linux-disciples] OSS v. ALSA

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 05:12:08PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Do you have all the suboptions enabled as well?  E.g., PCM?

I believe there were two such OSS options under the ALSA
subtree, and I checked them both.

> Also, are you using -o alsa (or -o alsa09) for mpg321 and -d alsa for
> ogg123?  Have you tried mplayer -ao alsa?

I didn't think I had to. My assumption was that since ALSA
was compiled into the kernel, it would intercept any calls
to OSS and turn them into ALSA calls.

A reasonable thing to check, certainly. But kinda lame if
that's what's required.

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