Re: oss to alsa

H}kan Hjort <[email protected]> Mon, 3 May 2004 01:20:04 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.ogle.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Sun May 02 2004, Ted Parks wrote:
> After installing Ogle when my machine used OSS, I switched to ALSA to 
> configure my soundcard because of problems with the OSS drivers. But now 
> Ogle is not producing sound. How do I fix this?
> 
Edit the config file and change driver from oss to alsa.
See 'man oglerc' for file path and some info.
Should probably look something like this afterwards
  <audio>
    <device>
      <driver>alsa</driver>
      <path>/dev/dsp</path>
      <alsa>
        <name>pcm</name>
      </alsa>
    </device>

The <name> field is just the name of the alsa 'configuration' that you want
to use, see alsa documentation/config files for info regarding that.
It used to be 'default' lately pcm seems to be common, there are also some other
semi-standard names for multi-channel playback (suround40 and suround51).

PS. You probably also want to enable Alsa's OSS emulation, or you won't be able
to use any software that only support OSS.

Regards
Håkan