OSS and ALSA

[David Demelier]

Don't enable OSS4 nor ALSA, VLC can run fine with FreeBSD kernel mixer
support (that has a OSS compatibility support).

Just use defaults, it will always work more when you use default options.


2013/1/21 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>

> Hi :)
>
> I know it's a topic for the multimedia list, but there's less traffic on
> that list, so I hope it's okay to post it to both lists :S.
>
> I'll test the snd_hdspe driver. It's working for the 2 analog IOs of a
> HDSPe AIO, but other ports are missing by jackd.
>
> I was asked to use mpd, but I never used this kind of media player before.
> Usually I'm using pro-audio apps on Linux and seldom I use "averaged"
> media players and as mentioned before, I never used this kind of player.
>
> I don't know how to use mpd or the Gnome GUI for it and sonata failed to
> build.
>
> Perhaps I could use an "averaged" media player to get access to all ports?
>
> Is there a way to automatically get all dependencies when building
> applications?
>
> To me it's already strange that audacious is build without the output
> plugins, however, I'll build them now and I get
>
> root at freebsd:/usr/home/**rocketmouse # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/**audacious-plugins
> ; make install clean
>
>
>
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>
>                     ┌─────────────────────────────**
> ──────────────────────────────**─────────┐
>                     │ Options for audacious-plugins 3.3.3
>                │
>                     │ ┌─────────────────────────────**
> ──────────────────────────────**─────┐ │
>                     │ │         [*] AAC         AAC/MP4 format
>             │ │
>                     │ │         [*] ADPLUG      ADPLUG decoder
>             │ │
>                     │ │         [*] ALSA        ALSA audio architecture
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] AMIDI       Amidi decoder
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] AOSD        Audacious OSD
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] AOSDXCOMP   Audacious OSD X Composite
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] BS2B        BS2B effect
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] CDAUDIO     CD audio input
>             │ │
>                     │ │         [*] CUE         Embedded CUE sheets
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] DBUS        D-Bus IPC system
>             │ │
>                     │ │         [*] FFAUDIO     FFAudio decoder
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] FLAC        FLAC lossless audio codec
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] GIO         GIO support
>              │ │
>                     │ │         [*] JACK        JACK audio server
>              │ │
>                     │ └─────────────v(+)────────────**
> ───────────────────────────45%**─────┘ │
>                     ├─────────────────────────────**
> ──────────────────────────────**─────────┤
>                     │                   <  OK  >          <Cancel>
>               │
>                     └─────────────────────────────**
> ──────────────────────────────**─────────┘
>
>
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>
>
> ===>  Found saved configuration for audacious-plugins-3.3.3
> => audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.**bz2 doesn't seem to exist in
> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch http://distfiles.audacious-**
> media-player.org/audacious-**plugins-3.3.3.tar.bz2<http://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org/audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.bz2>
> audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.**bz2               100% of 1699 kB  571 kBps
> ===>  Extracting for audacious-plugins-3.3.3
> => SHA256 Checksum OK for audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.**bz2.
> ===>  Patching for audacious-plugins-3.3.3
> ===>   audacious-plugins-3.3.3 depends on executable: audacious - found
> ===>   audacious-plugins-3.3.3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/oss/include/
> **sys/soundcard.h - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/oss/include/**sys/soundcard.h
> in /usr/ports/audio/oss
> ===>  oss-4.2.b2007 requires kernel source to be installed.
> *** [install] Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/audio/oss.
> *** [build-depends] Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/**audacious-plugins.
> *** [install] Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/**audacious-plugins.
>
> Ok, I need the kernel source, I bet I'll find what to do using Google, but
> I wonder why OSS already is working, when it's not installed. I suspect
> this will replace something that already is part of the kernel? If so,
> could it break other ports?
>
> I also wonder why ALSA doesn't work, when it's installed and the sound
> card's driver is installed.
>
> FWIW, after an ports update there already was the application finder icon
> missing and now there's no icon for audacious for the menu. I know how to
> give them icons, I just want to inform, that there are icons missing.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
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-- 
Demelier David