[Alsa-user] Re: snd-hda-intel: cannot set volume

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 13:54 +0100, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > This cannot work with the in-kernel OSS emulation, because the softvol
> > (and dmix) plugins run in userspace.  The solution is to use aoss:
> > 
> > aoss ./foo-oss-app
> 
> ah, that's working.
> 
> I don't know if I've understand the manpage of aoss correctly. Is it
> possible to use aoss by default by adding the line
> 
> pcm.dsp0 {      type plug      slave.pcm "dmix" }
> 
> to the .asoundrc? If so it's not working for me. I still have to call
> OSS-programs with aoss to set the volume.

No that won't work, you have to run them with aoss.

This is something that the distros should do - similar to the
way /usr/bin/mozilla is a shell script wrapper, /usr/bin/foo-oss-app
needs to be a wrapper around "./aoss oss-app".  It can't be solved at
the ALSA level.

Lee