OSS/Linux vs OSS/Free

[t0t3r]

i have just downloaded the commecial OSS trial ... and my audigy with digital output just works fine ..

so i tried to compile OSS in the 2.6.1 kernel ... kernel and stuff is running. but how to enable and configure oss?

any suggestions?

[ev8r]

do an 'lsmod' and see if it loaded the sound module

[t0t3r]

thats the problem .... there are a whole bunch of modules!

which do i have to load? .... exact howto cause im newb

[bwkaz]

emu10k1 is what you need loaded.

/sbin/modprobe emu10k1 as root.

But isn't OSS in kernel 2.6 deprecated? Aren't they recommending Alsa?

[t0t3r]

yes .... but i cannot turn on my digital output cause the emuktools send an error message "SOUND_MIXER3" ... something like that ...

i would use alsa if it would work ....

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by t0t3r
yes .... but i cannot turn on my digital output cause the emuktools send an error message "SOUND_MIXER3" ... something like that ... Can you post the exact error message?

i would use alsa if it would work .... How doesn't it? I don't use it with an emu10k1 chip, but it works just fine with my YMF-724... Are you just not getting sound, or is it not compiling, or something else?

[t0t3r]

I can use ALSA with normal analog output. So theres no Error. but i wanna use my digital Megaworks510D ... but the emuk-tools doesnt work.

SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument

... so is there a file or a prog where i can siwth to digital output for my audigy.

[bwkaz]

emu-tools may have been written for OSS only...

After some searching on Google for "alsa audigy digital", I found this page:

http://opensrc.org/alsa/index.php?page=emu10k1

Look at #3. Also, linked from that page, I found this one:

http://j.f.l.free.fr/notes/Alsa.html

The English isn't wonderful, but at least the Extin/Extout section tells you what to look for (ALSA-Configuration.txt from the sources for the version of the Alsa driver that you have).

[t0t3r]

thx it works under OSS now .... but i think i will tray the ALSA driver cause the digital output is kinda strange ... analog works fine.


thx so far ...

[t0t3r]

aarg ... i installed recent version of alsa 1.01 with tools and util and libs etc ... modules load cleanly and sound works perfectly analog.

Is there a config or a howto how i can use my digital output vom audigy cause the above links doesnt work so far. (in fact bad english) ... but doesnt work either. So there must be a solution to this problem.


sorry for me askin stupid questions ... but i googled for a solutions for hours and didnt find anything usable.

[bwkaz]

Does modinfo snd-emu10k1 list the extin and extout parameters? It should.

Grab the alsa-driver-1.0.1.tar.bz2 file from www.alsa-project.org and decompress it (tar xjf /path/to/alsa-driver-1.0.1.tar.bz2), then look at alsa-kernel/Documentation/ALSA-Configuration.txt from the top-level directory. It's got the values that you need to use for each card that the driver supports (but I don't know exactly what card you have so I can't tell you what those are). Then, modprobe -r snd-emu10k1 to remove the driver, and modprobe snd-emu10k1 extin='whatever' extout='whatever' to reload it and provide these parameters at the same time.

After that, see if the digital out works.

[t0t3r]

hmm didnt work so far .... i just siwtched the cables to the soundsystem. all 5 speakers work just fine. but digital ... no chance

tried all mixersettings with all extin/outs ... no sound!

[bwkaz]

Maybe that's old information then...

Anybody else here have a clue?