Sound on the OLPC

[pgf at laptop.org]

hello shivaprasad:

 >     I am trying to port an application from a normal Fedora system to work
 > on the XO. The application uses OSS API's which read and write to /dev/dsp
 > to acheive sound functionality. While porting I found out that the XO does
 > not have a /dev/dsp but has a single /dev/snd file for sound device. I tried
 > creating a sym link to /dev/dsp from /dev/snd which didnt work. Can anybody
 > help me out and suggest how else can I get the sound to work on the XO.

you may need to "modprobe snd-pcm-oss" in order to install the
OSS module, but i've never tried an OSS audio app on the XO, so i
can't guarantee success after that.  sound on the XO uses the
alsa audio system by default -- googling for OSS on alsa will probably
get you some information that may be relevant.

paul

 > 
 > Thanks
 > Shivaprasad

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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org