Hardy 8.04 & OSS4 (Alternative to ALSA)

[radamo]

radamo@lintest:/usr/src$ sudo hg clone http://mercurial.opensound.com/ oss-devel
sudo: hg: command not found


I get up to the step above... Is there a typo in the above? I have never seen hg as a command?
Thanks,
RA

Nevermind... I needed to install mercurial...now moving further...
Thanks,
RA

[radamo]

radamo,

Thank you for your patience. Below is the procedure I used to install OSS 4.1 from the mercurial repo. If your system complains about ALSA still running, then I recommend doing this procedure from 'recovery mode'.

sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop
sudo apt-get -y remove alsa-oss oss-compat alsa-base libesd-alsa0

sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential gawk libtool libgtk2.0-dev libesd0 wget linux-sound-base gcc-multilib libesd0-dev mercurial libssl0.9.8 libssl-dev
cd /usr/src
sudo hg clone http://mercurial.opensound.com/ oss-devel
cd ~/
mkdir oss41build
cd oss41build/
sudo sh /usr/src/oss-devel/configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Completed all of the above and got "no mixers in the system"

Tried to run ossxmix -

Get back: No mixers are availble

Is this better or worse?

ossinfo still returns no audio devices...
Version info: OSS 4.1 (b 080423/200805061338) (0x00040090)
Platform: Linux/x86_64 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 (lintest)

Number of audio devices: 0
Number of audio engines: 0
Number of MIDI devices: 0
Number of mixer devices: 0


Device objects
0: osscore0 OSS core services
1: ossusb0 USB audio core services
2: vmix0 OSS transparent virtual mixer

MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)

Mixer devices

Audio devices

[Yellow Pasque]

Please run:

sudo ossdetect -v

What output does it give?

[radamo]

Please run:

sudo ossdetect -v

What output does it give?

Detected Intel High Definition Audio (P35)
Detected Generic USB audio/MIDI device (BETA)
Detected OSS Transparent Virtual Mixing Architecture

Thanks,
RA

[Yellow Pasque]

radamo,
Your HD audio should work now. If it does not, please make a thread on the OSS forum (I saw you made an account there).

[radamo]

radamo,
Your HD audio should work now. If it does not, please make a thread on the OSS forum (I saw you made an account there).

Will do... from the Sound applet I get the following if I press Test:

audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument

[terminator14]

@Temüjin

I'm a linux noob like I'm sure a lot of us reading you post are and I'd just like to say THANKS A LOT ... I have been trying to get my X-Fi to work on Linux for probably over a year, waiting for new drivers from creative to come out, and trying stuff people have written about, trying and waiting. Following your guide, I was able to set up my X-Fi on Ubuntu 8.04 in minutes. I can't thank you enough.

BTW, the only thing I don't have working is my media keyboard won't increase/decrease the sound and that sort of thing. You mention that here:

ADDENDUM: Volume Control Patch The current gstreamer-based volume control in GNOME is incompatible with OSSv4, meaning your mouse wheel and media buttons won't work. To remedy the issue, try Clive Wright's patch. I've also built and attached an AMD64 version to this post. Note that this patch was updated on 1/8/08, so if you tried it before then and it didn't work, try again.
Also, if you'd prefer to map commands to your shortcut keys, here are some scripts to use (at the bottom of the page).

It seems that http://www.4front-tech.com is down right now and I can't get Clive Wright's Patch. Can anyone point out a mirror for this? I would find it myself but I have no idea what the file name of the patch is...

[Yellow Pasque]

Following your guide, I was able to set up my X-Fi on Ubuntu 8.04 in minutes. I can't thank you enough.

Awesome! If you'd like to thank me, please edit your post and remove the huge quote (I expect this thread to get rather long as it is)

It seems that http://www.4front-tech.com is down right now and I can't get Clive Wright's Patch.

The forum works fine for me at the time of this post. Just to make sure, I've added the 32-bit version to the original post.

[seawright]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive_w...r-ossv4.tar.gz
contains patch and 32 bit version of libgstossaudio.so

regards,
Clive

[terminator14]

Awesome! If you'd like to thank me, please edit your post and remove the huge quote (I except this thread to get rather long as it is)

Got it. Thanks again for the How To.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive_w...r-ossv4.tar.gz
contains patch and 32 bit version of libgstossaudio.so

regards,
Clive

Worked like a charm. Thanks