OSS/Commercial driver v4 beta!

aquila_deus · 2006-10-14 11:37:01

There is no announcement (dunno why), the original RPMs are at http://www.4front-tech.com/test/, or you can use my pkgbuild http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=7134 (binary is for kernel26ck 2.6.18 only)

Some changes: · Configuration and file path are all changed, see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OSS … cial_Setup for setup.
· 3D surround enhancement is much better now. No more noise for opera music! (unless you use headphones )
· reverb option in mixer is gone (???)
· osscore reports mmap on virtual devices is unsupported, but ossinfo says yes :?:. It affects enemy territory and maybe quake 3/4 too
Cheers!

Izuil · 2006-10-14 18:03:34

I tried using your guide and i got it working, thanks alot!

By the way, you don't possibly have a sloution for the problem with enemy territory?

EDIT: do you have problems with skype now?
Wondering cause i have

aquila_deus · 2006-10-14 18:49:58

Izuil wrote:

I tried using your guide and i got it working, thanks alot!
By the way, you don't possibly have a sloution for the problem with enemy territory?
EDIT: do you have problems with skype now?
Wondering cause i have

duplex is not supported on virtual mixer, though there are virtual input devices. I'm not sure if skype can open one device for output and another for input.

If you really need duplex, try alsa + oss2jack instead. It also works with ET but not some other games/apps. (oss v3 works perfectly with et, dunno why v4 is broken...)

PS: I'm still trying to find out why et no longer works....

Izuil · 2006-10-14 19:29:58

I tried alsa + oss2jack but it wouldn't build correctly for me :S

Edit: runing skype and then try to start a call gives me this:

volume_open: error opening: No such file or directory
volume_open: error opening: No such file or directory
read error, res = -1 , handle = 27

The last row is repeted until the call is stopped.

aquila_deus · 2006-10-15 02:33:12

well I just found Skype 1.3 can use different audio in and out devices. So oss/commercial may still work for you.

You can run "ossinfo -v1" to get the list of virtual sound input devices. It should be the last four by default (dsp10 - dsp13)

Izuil · 2006-10-15 11:16:06

Yeah, i know it can, it's when using dsp13-15 or 15 for all it gives me that. It wont even work with /dev/dsp so something's wrong...

Izuil · 2006-10-16 21:06:45

Okay, so why is oss always capturing the mic?
I would guess it's just to shut it off but how do i do that?

And skype won't work fore me :'( it's always giving me the message from above... anyone else got it working?

Izuil · 2006-10-17 07:51:44

Woah! Using this crashes alsa! Now i can't switch back to alsa either! Help please!

It says something about alsalib 9 and relocation or something like that at boot up :S

EDIT: Okay solved it! Just needed to reinstall alsa-lib, alsa-oss and alsa-utils and reboot.

aquila_deus · 2006-10-17 16:34:23

Izuil wrote:

Woah! Using this crashes alsa! Now i can't switch back to alsa either! Help please!
It says something about alsalib 9 and relocation or something like that at boot up :S
EDIT: Okay solved it! Just needed to reinstall alsa-lib, alsa-oss and alsa-utils and reboot.

hmmm weird, it should not need this (I tried several times)

I just got oss 3 back and et plays fine now

Izuil · 2006-10-17 17:33:30

huh how did you do that? I wanna know

EDIT: btw can you try skype to see if it works for you? It's in the repos so you just need to: pacman -S skype

sash · 2006-10-18 01:44:42

I haven't been able to get Skype 1.3 to make a call on my Arch machine :-(

I have resorted to using skype_dsp_hijacker, so I can use th espeakers for one soundcard, and the mic connected to another.

aquila_deus · 2006-10-18 04:31:05

Izuil wrote:

huh how did you do that? I wanna know

You mean enemy territory?? It worked well with oss v3. See the wiki if you want v3 and setup et (I updated it).

Izuil wrote:

EDIT: btw can you try skype to see if it works for you? It's in the repos so you just need to: pacman -S skype

I never have my microphones working with the via8237 chip, even though skype could run well without any error (with oss2jack or oss/commercial). The mic port is always being used as a 2nd sound output (3 speaker ports here for 5+1 sound)

Izuil · 2006-10-18 15:59:32

aquila_deus wrote:

I never have my microphones working with the via8237 chip, even though skype could run well without any error (with oss2jack or oss/commercial). The mic port is always being used as a 2nd sound output (3 speaker ports here for 5+1 sound)

Maybe you should change a jumper on your mainboard? You can read about it in the mobo manual.
Or was it just in oss that the mic had never worked?

aquila_deus · 2006-11-02 07:13:31

Izuil wrote:

aquila_deus wrote:
I never have my microphones working with the via8237 chip, even though skype could run well without any error (with oss2jack or oss/commercial). The mic port is always being used as a 2nd sound output (3 speaker ports here for 5+1 sound)
Maybe you should change a jumper on your mainboard? You can read about it in the mobo manual.
Or was it just in oss that the mic had never worked?

it's tested with alsa, not oss

BTW I was wrong about the oss input. It needs imux (input multiplex...) instead of softoss lookback device

jinn · 2006-11-09 09:15:23

skype works for me (using alsa right now) with aoss skype, but the microphone is giving alot of buzzing noise according to my friend.. trying to find a fix for that..

was trying out oss v4 , this doesnt exist for me: /etc/rc.d/oss-linux
.. installed using the pkgbuild.. have restarted even.

--edit
it existed but without the exec rights.. fixed that

jinn · 2006-11-09 09:28:49

Why tha hell doesnt it work to remove the module...

root@Estergon:0 > modprobe -r snd /root/
FATAL: Module snd is in use.
root@Estergon:1 > modprobe -r soundcore /root/
FATAL: Module soundcore is in use.

root@Estergon:0 > lsmod                                                  /root/
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  238496  12 
usbhid                 48160  0 
joydev                  8512  0 
tsdev                   6592  0 
rtc                    10420  0 
psmouse                36104  0 
nvidia               4706228  22 
serio_raw               5892  0 
agpgart                26328  1 nvidia
evdev                   8192  2 
i2c_i801                7564  0 
i2c_core               17536  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
ehci_hcd               29832  0 
uhci_hcd               21260  0 
sg                     26524  0 
speedstep_centrino      7348  1 
freq_table              4368  1 speedstep_centrino
cpufreq_userspace       3792  2 
snd_hda_intel          14740  1 
snd_hda_codec         146688  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                68484  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19460  1 snd_pcm
snd                    43236  6 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               8032  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          8072  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
tg3                   100740  0 
ndiswrapper           178004  0 
fuse                   38036  4 
usbcore               111492  5 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ndiswrapper
reiserfs              237440  1 
sd_mod                 16768  5 
generic                 5124  0 [permanent]
ide_core              109768  1 generic
ata_piix               11016  4 
libata                 86164  1 ata_piix
root@Estergon:0 >                                                                                                                                                         /root/

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OSS/Commercial driver v4 beta!

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