Sound on the OLPC

[pgf at laptop.org]

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

that's good news.  i'm now curious as to why the module didn't get
loaded automatically, but that's a different topic.

paul

 > 
 > 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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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org