Arch Linux

Blake Gideon

Member

From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

oss start results in ear splitting sound

I am reinstalling arch, and decided to use oss to see if it really has better sound quality than alsa. I was following the wiki verbatim, when I got to running /etc/rc.d/oss start and my speaker is so loud and unbearable i had to cut the power from my machine. I added oss to rc.conf, so now my machine cant even boot without making this horrible sound.

1) How can I change rc.conf without booting?

2) Can I change the oss volume before starting oss?

Blake Gideon

Member

From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2009-09-14

Posts: 57

Re: oss start results in ear splitting sound

I guess you can lock this, I am going to just reinstall.

ugkbunb

Member

Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 227

Re: oss start results in ear splitting sound

lol can't you just unplug your speakers? or you could boot into a livecd and mount your drives and edit it from there... reinstalling is a bit over the top