Re: [Alsa-user] Slackware and alsa and KDE

[James T. <sj...@st...>]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 13:23:45 +0200
Emmanuel Fleury <fl...@cs...> wrote:

> Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
> > Hi, I just installed the latest alsa release over Slackware 8.1. 
> > Smoothly, works perfectly. I use an ICE1712 sound chip.
> > Unfortunately KDE 3.01 coming with Slackware 8.1 does not know
> > anything about alsa and does not find /dev/dsp(0). In any terminal
> > window under KDE aplay etc. work just fine. Does anyone know, how to
> > "help" KDE to cooperate with alsa? When booting SuSE 8.0 with KDE
> > 3.01 on the same hardware: no problem.
> 
> You should use the alsa-oss emulation which provide a hook to
> /dev/dsp.
> 
> When running the configure of alsa-drivers, just add '--with-oss=yes'.
> This option is visible when you run: ./configure --help
> 
> 
> And install alsa-oss after.

The alsa-oss package is not needed for normal operation, it is a
LD_PRELOAD hack that allows (e.g.) OSS utilities to use ALSA routing
tables... The --with-oss=yes setting and adding the right options to
/etc/modules.conf (sorry I don't have them to hand as this is a mute
box) will suffice.

James


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