ALSA and OSS emulation
 

Hi there,
I compiled kernel-2.6.10 enabling ALSA and OSS emulation, and support for my VIA AC`97 sound card of couse:

<M> Sound card support
<M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<M> Sequencer support
<M> OSS Mixer API
<M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API[*] OSS Sequencer API
<M> RTC Timer support
PCI Devices ->
<M> VIA 82C686A/B, 8233/8235 AC97 Controller

When I reboot, all OSS modules starts correctly:

$ lsmod | grep oss
snd_pcm_oss 48804 0
snd_mixer_oss 17792 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82952 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd 45668 18 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,s nd_seq_device

but /dev/*dsp* and /dev/mixer aren`t created. When i try to listen music for exemple using xmms or mplayer using OSS, doesn't work. What happens? I forget to compile or to do something?

Any suggestion greatly appreciated :)

Why not just use alsa on xmms and mlayer, they work fine on my Slack system using alsa. OSS is obviously deprecated so it won't be around for long.

because I need OSS for games like Quake3 arena and many other emulator games :)

This was aleady asked
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&highlight=dsp
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&highlight=dsp
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&highlight=dsp

The easy fix is to compile soundcore as built-in

Hey keefaz, I need to compile soundcore as built-in only? or '<*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture' too ?

thanks for you help dudes!

I hope you realize that you just suggested "why not just not bother to fix it"

[shudder]

nothing annoys me more..

You could compile all your sound features as built-in or just compile Sound card support as
built-in and nothing else, then go to alsa-project.org, download and compile alsa-driver