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Offline TroyB

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ossxmix issue
« on: April 19, 2011, 12:25:52 AM »
Hi all,

I getting the following issue with the above extension when running it. Previous version was working fine, until I upgraded to this current version.

Upon running ossxmix, it get the following error message.

No mixer are available

Can anyone shed any light on this? Am I missing anything? or can I get the previous version before this one.

This was done through app browser.

Thanks for your time.

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2011, 12:45:27 AM »
You don't say what version you are running or what the previous version was.
Since the kernel has not changed since 3.0, I doubt the version has anything to do with the problem.
I would look for changes in the extensions you are loading.

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2011, 12:56:45 AM »
You don't say what version you are running or what the previous version was.
Since the kernel has not changed since 3.0, I doubt the version has anything to do with the problem.
I would look for changes in the extensions you are loading.

Thanks Gerald for your reply,

ossinfo output

OSS4.2 (b2002/201005121103)
Platform: linux/i686 2.6.33.3 tinycore

Number of audio device: 0
Number of audio engines: 0
Number of midi device: 0
Number of mixer device: 0

device objects

0: osscore0 osscore service
1:oss_usb 0 usb audio core service
midi devices (/dev/midi *)

mixer devices
audio devices

Nodes

ossxmix was installed through app browser.

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2011, 01:23:04 AM »
Hi TroyB
I'm no expert on OSS but it looks like it's not finding the audio hardware. You could try opening a
terminal and entering  sudo soundon  to see if it spits out any useful messages, or you could try
un-installing OSS and then re-installing it.

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2011, 04:06:03 AM »
Changing the topic title would seem like a good idea, as from your output it looks like OSS has not recognized any soundcard, therefore it is not an issue particular to ossxmix at all.
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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2011, 04:20:48 AM »
Thanks rich & tinypoodle for your response.

That was the strange thing, I had download the ossxmix into the optional quiet sometime ago for TC 3.2 and it worked, now I upgraded to TC 3.5 and with a clean optional dir and ossxmix stops working.

I have removed it and reinstalled again with no luck except the same message every time I tried to run ossxmix.

Thanks again
« Last Edit: April 20, 2011, 02:50:17 AM by TroyB »

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2011, 11:56:51 AM »
Looking at repo it seems that OSS has not been upgraded since about 11 months, so you could exclude that.
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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2011, 02:18:05 AM »
You shouldn't have alsa installed.

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2011, 02:19:05 AM »
Looking at repo it seems that OSS has not been upgraded since about 11 months, so you could exclude that.

Thank for the reply tinypoodle,

I have going through the dep for OSS.tcz and notice that

OSS-modules-KERNEL.tcz

Is not there in the repo to download.

Cheers

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2011, 02:20:44 AM »
You shouldn't have alsa installed.

Hi Hiro,

I was getting to that stage where I was going to get alsa as well...have not walked that path yet.

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2011, 02:35:19 AM »
I have going through the dep for OSS.tcz and notice that

OSS-modules-KERNEL.tcz

Is not there in the repo to download.

When you use the apps browser to download the extension it will substitute the appropriate extension for "kernel", i.e OSS-modules-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz or OSS-modules-2.6.33.3-tinycore64.tcz

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2011, 02:52:11 AM »
I have going through the dep for OSS.tcz and notice that

OSS-modules-KERNEL.tcz

Is not there in the repo to download.

When you use the apps browser to download the extension it will substitute the appropriate extension for "kernel", i.e OSS-modules-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz or OSS-modules-2.6.33.3-tinycore64.tcz

Thanks Juanito  for the clarification.

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2011, 06:33:10 AM »
You shouldn't have alsa installed.

Hi Hiro,

I was getting to that stage where I was going to get alsa as well...have not walked that path yet.

Having alsa and OSS concurrently installed could only complicate your situation further.
However, installing OSS_alsa.tcz for support of alsa apps might be a good idea   ;)
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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2011, 02:55:34 AM »
Looking at repo it seems that OSS has not been upgraded since about 11 months, so you could exclude that.

Hi tinypoodle,

After removing vlc from onboot, ossxmix worked from cli, but it would not work (ossxmix) if both were onboot menu, so i move ossxmix to ondemand and left vlc onboot, still ossxmix will not work....hmmmm.

So in the end I had to move both ossxmix & vlc to ondemand in order for ossxmix to work, this is strange.

As well, evince had to be run as su in the cli, clicking it did not start it, unlike other extensions which work.

What am I doing wrong here?

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Re: ossxmix issue
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2011, 04:49:00 AM »
Not your fault, VLC depends on jack which in turn brings alsa in. To fix it locally, just remove alsa.tcz from jack.tcz.dep.

I seem to recall this dep discussed before, but can't remember the conclusion.
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