Sound on the OLPC

[shivaprasad javali]

Thanks for the information. I did a modprobe snd-pcm-oss and everything
started working perfectly well. Thank you very much.

Thanks
Shivaprasad

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:52 PM, <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
>
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