OSS question

[Pats]

I observed that on one of  my old system Intel810e m/b ( in-built ac97), alsa.tcz , OSS.tcem works flawlessly w/o any twaking frommy side, but OSS.tcz refuse to recognize my ac97 h/w . What can be the reason ?
( TCL2.6  )
OSS is realy best !
~ Pats

[curaga]

Please post ossinfo from that machine, from both OSS.tcem and OSS.tcz boots. Also, make sure alsa isn't loaded at the same time.

Is your OSS.tcz up to date?

[Pats]

( o/p of ossinfo for oss.tcem )
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Version info: OSS 4.1 (b 1052/200904111036) (0x00040100) GPL
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.29.1-tinycore #1337 SMP Fri Apr 10 19:12:39 EEST 2009 (box)

Number of audio devices:   1
Number of audio engines:   6
Number of mixer devices:   1


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: oss_ich0 Intel ICH (2415)
 2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services


Mixer devices
 0: ICH AC97 Mixer (ALC100) (Mixer 0 of device object 1)

Audio devices
Intel ICH (2415)                  /dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0  (device index 0)


( output of ossinfo for OSS40.tcz )
OSS4.0 for 2.6.29.1-tinycore build 1016 extension by u54749 .
Dnloaded in Jan2010 3rd week from http://distro.ibiblio.org/.../2.x/tcz .
Tried w/ and w/o GTK2 installed.
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(Before- sudo soundon
ossinfo
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No /dev/mixer device available in your system.
Perhaps Open Sound System is not installed or running


(After sudo soundon
ossinfo
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Version info: OSS 4.0 (b1016/200906060037) (0x00040003) GPL
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.29.1-tinycore #1337 SMP Fri Apr 10 19:12:39 EEST 2009 (box)

Number of audio devices:   0
Number of audio engines:   0
Number of mixer devices:   0


Device objects
 0: osscore0 OSS core services
 1: ossusb0 USB audio core services


Mixer devices

Audio devices


(o/p of osstest command)
osstest
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Sound subsystem and version: OSS 4.0 (b1016/200906060037) (0x00040003)
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.29.1-tinycore #1337 SMP Fri Apr 10 19:12:39 EEST 2009


NOTICE! You don't have any audio devices available.
        It looks like your audio hardware was not recognized
        by OSS. Please contact 4Front technologies for help
        (http://www.opensound.com/support.cgi). Don't forget to
        include your soundon.log file to the support request.


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/tmp/tcloop/oss40 is installed with all its sub-dir sturcture.

/usr/local/tce.installed has oss40 .

Note: There is diff in build numbers. I have not tried more recent version than this if available.
Both OSS versions installed after dnloadinf , and NOT thru Appbrowser.

~ Pats

[gerald_clark]

Why are you now trying to run the older OSS40.tcz when the newer OSS.tcz was working previously?

[Pats]

<Quote>Why are using older...</Quote>
Uh, Oh ! And I was thinking .tce .tcem etc are depricated and the .tcz is the newer in-thing !
I am using OSS.tcem succesfully - and so I said - I observed... - .
Just technically curious - why OSS40.tcz not working !
~ Pats

[curaga]

Please try OSS.tcz as well, it's the same build your tcem was, not an older one. The ac97/hd-audio standards are pretty lax, implementations differ, so I think there may have been fixes related to that.

[Pats]

<quote>The ac97/hd-audio stabdards are pretty lax... </quote>
Got it , thanks ! The newer OSS.tcz is working on my other P4 quite well .
~ Pats