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etouche n00b
Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 18
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:04 am Post subject: OSS and ALSA can live together on gentoo ? |
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Hi,
I come from read some articles on OSS and ALSA drivers and one question still.
It is possible to get both in same Gentoo without issue ?
To me a OSS emulator for ALSA (in my mind) is depreciate because it is a step more for my lovely computer (even if for him is not a big work).
Thanks a lot for your time.
P.S. : i need to use ALSA for linux application and OSS for Wine and steam ... because in some how to they talk about... but i'm confuse, it was on Quake 3
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M Guru
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 432
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:42 am Post subject: |
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You can have both alsa and oss if you use oss emulation, what is wrong with that? I don't think new oss and alsa can be used together, only one driver/module can be used for sound device. |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:01 am Post subject: Re: OSS and ALSA can live together on gentoo ? |
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This was asked previously - got nowhere, it seems.
Quote: | OSS for Wine and steam |
Wine works fine with ALSA. Run winecfg to switch from OSS to ALSA, or change the registry with this command:
echo -e "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Wine\\Drivers]\n\"Audio\"=\"alsa\"" | wine regedit -
Note that the minus sign at the end of the command is necessary. |
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Anon-E-moose Watchman
Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 6095 Location: Dallas area
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:12 am Post subject: |
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I have alsa installed as modules on my system, but I haven't used it in over six months.
I run oss-4.2 and haven't had any problems at all.
I haven't found any applications that won't use oss instead of alsa.
Note: I don't think you can have them both installed at the same time (modules loaded)
To use alsa, I would have to unload oss then load alsa,
and then do the opposite when I wanted to switch back. _________________ PRIME x570-pro, 3700x, 6.1 zen kernel
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etouche n00b
Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 18
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Hey thanks for your answers... I appreciate.
It is logic : 2 sounds drivers cannot work together ...
And about yours advices on Wine and co thanks a lot.
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Silent-Hunter Apprentice
Joined: 07 Jul 2013 Posts: 166
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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:02 am Post subject: |
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I have an OpenPandora, basically a small Linux based UMPC, and it has both OSS and ALSA installed at the same time and mplayer can switch between them by changing mplayer.conf. No rebooting, no module changing. Unless it has some script that detects when one needs to be used and changes the modules on the fly. |
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