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| author | Dugan Chen <dugan [underscore] c [at] fastmail [dot] fm> | 2010-05-14 23:31:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> | 2010-05-14 23:31:50 +0200 |
| commit | b66a27946bea58639bb9d7c62ec6f916e1f5a5a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e7c8d2953df4550ad4f642fce0dd0321296a495 /system/oss/README.SLACKWARE | |
| parent | fd27b599598e6dd5ff4050b3447b27cf3ac526e2 (diff) | |
system/oss: Added. (an ALSA alternative)
The Open Sound System is a set of sound drivers that serve as
an alternative to the usual ALSA architecture.
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diff --git a/system/oss/README.SLACKWARE b/system/oss/README.SLACKWARE new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..309db29c9ffb --- /dev/null +++ b/system/oss/README.SLACKWARE @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +README.SLACKWARE for oss + +After installing the package, do the following: + +1. Blacklist the alsa modules for your sound card. + The output of "lsmod | grep snd" should give you a list of which modules + will need to be blacklisted. + +2. Make /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa non-executable: chmod 0644 /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa + +3. Make /etc/rc.d/rc.oss executable: chmod 0755 /etc/rc.d/rc.oss + +4. Add this snippet to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: + + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.oss ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.oss start + fi + +5. Reboot. + +6. Test sound to ensure that it works - use "osstest" for this. + +7. Configure applications to use OSS instead of ALSA; typically, this will + involve setting the "Sound Command" or some such to use "ossplay" + |