[alsa-devel] Alsa OSS - who is maintaining it?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:18:48 +0200,
Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:10 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > > > To make sure, check /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params has no
> > > > "OSS" entry when you're playing via aoss.  If a line like "OSS Format"
> > > > appears there, it is still kernel oss-emulation.
> > > 
> > > OSS Format is not in there.
> > 
> > Fine.  Then it smells more.
> > 
> > Johannes, any known / possible problem with OSS emulation using aoa
> > driver (especially regarding endianness)?
> 
> snd-pcm-oss you mean?

Both snd-pcm-oss and aoss wrapper seem not working for Stefan's
machine.  Maybe a problem specific to a certain model?


Takashi

> No, it's working fine, the contents of that file is (mplayer -ao oss):
> 
> access: RW_INTERLEAVED
> format: S16_BE
> subformat: STD
> channels: 2
> rate: 44100 (44100/1)
> period_size: 1024
> buffer_size: 16384
> tick_time: 10000
> OSS format: S16_BE
> OSS channels: 2
> OSS rate: 44100
> OSS period bytes: 4096
> OSS periods: 16
> OSS period frames: 1024
> 
> while with alsa it is (rhythmbox/gstreamer):
> 
> access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
> format: S16_BE
> subformat: STD
> channels: 2
> rate: 44100 (44100/1)
> period_size: 1024
> buffer_size: 8192
> tick_time: 10000
> 
> and with aoss (aoa mplayer -ao oss, snd-pcm-oss not loaded):
> access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
> format: S16_BE
> subformat: STD
> channels: 2
> rate: 44100 (44100/1)
> period_size: 1024
> buffer_size: 8192
> tick_time: 10000
> 
> 
> Don't see a problem at all, working well for me.