Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

[victor]

What exactly is the problem with the alsa driver? Csound works
OK with it. Replacing it with OSS will require us to write a new
IO module for Csound. Without Csound, audio and music on
the XO will have to be completely re-written.

IMHO, developers wanting to use audio on the XO should ideally
use Csound and its Python API. That's why it's there.

As far as I am concerned, having developed audio apps for
Linux for several years, Alsa is much better and more reliable
than OSS.

Victor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jordan Crouse" <jordan.crouse at amd.com>
To: "Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves" <justivo at gmail.com>
Cc: "Arjun Sarwal" <arjun at laptop.org>; <devel at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO


On 18/01/08 20:57 +0000, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> As far as I understand this is due to the use of ALSA without OSS
> emulation.  It's also what affects one of the three Speex bugs
> affecting the XO, as the CLI tool speexdec is unable to use /dev/dsp.
>
> For the sake of improving the state of audio in the XO; I'd really
> like to put to vote the idea of replacing ALSA with OSS 4.

If thats the case, then we need somebody to volunteer to write the AC97
driver for the CS5536.  I don't think we would consider any sort of
change until the appropriate hardware controls are in place.

Jordan

-- 
Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.


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