Resolved: [PLUG] No Sound

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 07 May 2007 14:02, drew wymore wrote:
> strangely enough its still included in slackware .. if you right click say
> in XMMS and go to the config options you can choose the output thats used.
> Other apps I believe are similar ..
>
> On 5/7/07, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 07 May 2007 13:33, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> > > drew wymore wrote:
> > > > have you run alsamixer to make sure its not muted there
> > >
> > > Bingo! Thanks.
> > >
> > > >... and that all apps are using the alsa output and not OSS?
> > >
> > > How do I know?
> >
> > ALSA has a built-in OSS emulator; on any modern Linux it's unlikely that
> > OSS
> > is even included.
> >
 
Isn't it fun how in the 21st century nobody knows how to edit emails, or 
follow posting order? sigh... at any rate, is that the 'real' OSS on 
Slackware, or ALSA's OSS emulator? OSS still shows up in a lot of places, but 
it's really ALSA. For example, Asterisk wants OSS for sound on the server 
console, so it's configured for /dev/oss, but it's ALSA's OSS emulation.

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