11 Jan
2003
11 Jan
'03
12:18 p.m.
On 10 Jan 2003, Jan "Evil Twin" Depner wrote:
I have been using ALSA with OSS compatibility and can
use xine and
Timidity both. I'm wondering if you loaded the ALSA stuff properly. As
Patrick said earlier, you might want to start the load from scratch. I
have some docs on doing everything from tarballs on my page at
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html. It's mostly
for Ardour but it might help.
Jan
An off-list email from Christian Henz led me to the solution.
It seems that the 'oss' modules are not loaded automatically.
When I insmoded 'snd-via82xx', a lot of other modules were,
in fact, loaded, which enabled the playing of .WAV files, say.
For xine, I had to 'insmod snd-pcm-oss' separately. After that,
sound from DVD's and TV became suddenly available. Great joy!
However...
This only happens in 8bpp (video) mode. If I try 16bpp, mplayer,
for instance, plays both sound and video for 10-15 seconds only.
After that, no more sound, and mplayer says my machine is too
slow.
xine, on the other hand, does play the sound, but it shows no
video - just a blank (grey) rectangle.
So the subject needs further study. The 8bpp colors are not
too good.
Sakari Aaltonen