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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Help with OSS

Hello, while arch has no packages of the 2.6.25 kernel and I'm not able to make alsa-drivers work, my last hope was to try OSS, to see make my new sound card work(asus xonar D2) would work.

OSS finds my soundcard:

[roberth@Magda ~]$ ls -lah /dev/dsp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-02-27 21:07 /dev/dsp -> /dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-02-27 21:07 /dev/dsp0 -> /dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-02-27 21:07 /dev/dsp1 -> /dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-02-27 21:07 /dev/dsp2 -> /dev/oss/softoss0/pcm0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-02-27 21:07 /dev/dsp_ac3 -> /dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-02-27 21:07 /dev/dsp_mmap -> /dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-02-27 21:07 /dev/dsp_multich -> /dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm0

osstest:

[roberth@Magda ~]$ osstest
Sound subsystem and version: OSS 4.0 (b1013/200802262216) (0x00040003)
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 20 18:20:46 UTC 2008

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm0 (audio engine 0): CMedia CMI8788 (MultiChannel)
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 48004.00 Hz (0.01%)> 
/dev/oss/cmi87880/pcm1 (audio engine 2): CMedia CMI8788 (SPDIF)
- Performing audio playback test... 
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47997.00 Hz (-0.01%)> 

*** All tests completed OK ***

But, I get no sound, what can be the issue?

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