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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: feddozz on August 09, 2011, 08:05:03 AM

Title: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: feddozz on August 09, 2011, 08:05:03 AM

Hi,

I installed TC on my hard drive. to get sound working I installed OSS.tcr.
I can now hear sound but the quality is very poor. Everything sounds like frying.
Could you suggest a soluion?

Thanks

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: cast-fish on August 09, 2011, 12:55:02 PM

could it be just bad connections of wires?   plugs dirty etc?

i use oss and i never have any problems. My soundcard is plugged into
the laptop and is a USB soundcard.

You could always remove OSS and try the ALSA sound driver instead.

THe instructions for getting ALSA working are on the tinycore wiki page.

It  can sometimes be a little tricky to get ALSA working correctly.

V.

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: feddozz on August 10, 2011, 08:10:45 AM

I'll give ALSA a try.

Thanks

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: feddozz on November 28, 2011, 04:17:03 PM

Hi,
I am still having this problem. Something strange happened, once with OSS the noise disappeared and the quality of the sound was perfect. I don't know why and i did not manage to reproduce it!

I also tried to install alsa, but i can't uninstall OSS. When I mark OSS for deletion on apps audit, it says that OSS cannot be deleted. Do you know why?

I also noticed that I get some errors at boot. Is there a log somewhere? Apparently I am mising ali15x3, can this be the cause?

Thanks

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: Rich on November 28, 2011, 04:35:49 PM

Hi feddozz

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I also noticed that I get some errors at boot. Is there a log somewhere?

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dmesg | lessUse pageup and pagedown keys to look around, esc when done.

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Apparently I am mising ali15x3, can this be the cause?

i2c-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz maybe? It has:
i2c-ali15x3.ko.gz

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: cast-fish on November 28, 2011, 05:05:50 PM

Hello

oh. It looks like "ali" is some kind low level drv library file.

you can BOOT without OSS....just use the bootcode "BASE"

This new boot of tcl will be virgin. You can then try ALsa
driver for sound.

It is funny because sound and video...real rudimentary for
a computer ...but sometimes it does not always work out
of the box. (OSS is suppossed to exactly work right out of
the box)

V.

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: feddozz on November 29, 2011, 03:48:01 PM

Ok, alsa works well. I only have a problem of persistence, i.e. i need to run alsaconfig at every reboot.
I have persistent /home and /opt. What files do i need to backup to get the configuration of alsa persistent?
Thanks

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: gerald_clark on November 29, 2011, 04:03:51 PM

Read the alsa.tcz info page.

Title: Re: bad quality sound with OSS
Post by: feddozz on December 01, 2011, 07:43:43 AM

It worked. thanks