Hi. The story goes like this>
to make sure KDE used ALSA, I selected it in the Sound system control 'panel' in "system settings". Over time, I learned about the OSS vs. ALSA thing - basically, I don't care if I supported "Linux-only", so I selected ALSA where possible, because the OSS emulation had some annoying issues with volume, when I, for example, seek in a movie or switched to/from fullscreen with mplayer or VLC.
After some time, I grew tired of Vmware server not outputting sound whenever something else was playing because it could only use OSS (I tried the AOSS wrapper - I tried really hard - but it didn't work).
Today, I finally got fed up with it and downloaded the new driver from http://www.opensound.com/ - installed it, rebooted, checked to see which sounds work, reselected OSS in amarok, kmplayer, smplayer, VLC and finally, in KDE's System Settings>Sound system. Now, I can even click "test sound" in the dialog and hear sound! Everywhere (VLC, KMPlayer, the sound works, more or less - I noticed that virtual machine probably has some limitations regarding sample rate (22050 doesn't play nicely).
All in all, apps that have their own sound output settings, work. Test sound in System Setting> Sound System, works. Notifications in Kopete, Konsole bell - nada. Kmix is next to dead, trying to run it in Konsole yields:
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Additionally, my keyboard behaves strangely - when I cycle windows with Alt+tab, I can no longer change the direction by holding/releasing shift.
I should probably note that even before installing the driver, the sound system settings would only show in "system settings" - when I try to open the same dialog in KControl, it throws me back to it's info screen! Anyone else with this behaviour?
Does anybody else here run the new OSS driver? What's your experience?
to make sure KDE used ALSA, I selected it in the Sound system control 'panel' in "system settings". Over time, I learned about the OSS vs. ALSA thing - basically, I don't care if I supported "Linux-only", so I selected ALSA where possible, because the OSS emulation had some annoying issues with volume, when I, for example, seek in a movie or switched to/from fullscreen with mplayer or VLC.
After some time, I grew tired of Vmware server not outputting sound whenever something else was playing because it could only use OSS (I tried the AOSS wrapper - I tried really hard - but it didn't work).
Today, I finally got fed up with it and downloaded the new driver from http://www.opensound.com/ - installed it, rebooted, checked to see which sounds work, reselected OSS in amarok, kmplayer, smplayer, VLC and finally, in KDE's System Settings>Sound system. Now, I can even click "test sound" in the dialog and hear sound! Everywhere (VLC, KMPlayer, the sound works, more or less - I noticed that virtual machine probably has some limitations regarding sample rate (22050 doesn't play nicely).
All in all, apps that have their own sound output settings, work. Test sound in System Setting> Sound System, works. Notifications in Kopete, Konsole bell - nada. Kmix is next to dead, trying to run it in Konsole yields:
Code:
$ kmix ******************** WARNING ******************************* Warning! kmix uses ALSA emulation instead of the native OSS API **************************************************************** kmix: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kmix.so: symbol snd_mixer_free, version ALSA_0.9 not defined in file libasound.so.2 with link time reference ERROR: Communication problem with kmix, it probably crashed.
Additionally, my keyboard behaves strangely - when I cycle windows with Alt+tab, I can no longer change the direction by holding/releasing shift.
I should probably note that even before installing the driver, the sound system settings would only show in "system settings" - when I try to open the same dialog in KControl, it throws me back to it's info screen! Anyone else with this behaviour?
Does anybody else here run the new OSS driver? What's your experience?
). Even if I fix the symlink to point to original libasound, the OSS load script relinks it back to the emulation library upon reboot.
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