mplayer problems

[jls]

If 4 example I say remove alsa-oss, this shall be done since it's my extension. But don't warry if u say it's needed I belive u

[Jason W]

The alsa oss modules are not in the alsa oss extension but in the modules extensin.  Alsa-oss provides libraries.  I have normally don't use alsa-oss extension but have oss support.  I believe that Juanito told me that alsa was compiled with oss support natively enabled.  I don't believe alsa-oss.tczl is necessary as I don't normally use it, but it may be of help to other folks.

[jpeters]

Otherwise, you might not have had the alsa oss modules loaded. They aren't loaded automatically, but the init script loads them. With them loaded, no aoss needed.

That worked. I'm surprised that everything else, including xmms, works without the -oss drivers.  I see that it's in the info file, and I intitially loaded it, but got sidetracked into scripting alsamixer to get sound.  (had to click various mutes off and on with pauses after boot.).   

[Jason W]

I had the issue of alsa starting with volumes muted on my normal box, running alsamixer showed all channels set to mute.  The issue on my box was a stale /etc/asound.state file in my backup.  I don't know if it got corrupted or it was from another machine, but removing it and starting fresh fixed it.

I have not tried to find why my laptop starts with certain channels muted, but this at least helped on my desktop.

[jpeters]

I had the issue of alsa starting with volumes muted on my normal box, running alsamixer showed all channels set to mute.  The issue on my box was a stale /etc/asound.state file in my backup.  I don't know if it got corrupted or it was from another machine, but removing it and starting fresh fixed it.

I have not tried to find why my laptop starts with certain channels muted, but this at least helped on my desktop.

I load alsamixer settings from a script, which has mutes off and volume levels set. I have another script hotkeyed that turns Master and PCM mutes off and back on.  It's temperamental...but that method works consistently.   

[jls]

Without the script:

sudo modprobe snd-seq-oss
sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss

with script instead of aoss, mplayer locks the sound, so no more sounds for example form pidgin while mplayer is playing.

[curaga]

A limitation of alsa's oss emulation. And a reason to use aoss, if this combo is desired