obsolete OSS interface messages

[Robin Laing]

Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 09/16/2004 09:53 PM, Ben Vitale wrote:
> 
>> RealPlayer does have an option to select the Audio Driver being used. 
>> Unfortunately, OSS is the only choice. My cross-fade plugin in XMMS 
>> uses ALSA, so I know it's working..
> 
> 
> So RP doesn't see ALSA. I have no clue about that one.
> 
>>
>> Mozilla has no audio options, aside from which helper application to 
>> use for specific audio formats.  I'm wondering if the mozilla messages 
>> are just because of realplayer being launched from mozilla?
>>
>> Any other ideas - anyone?
> 
> 
> I don't know what's causing the Mozilla messages, and I'm not sure how 
> much I'm helping, but as long as nobody else is responding,
> 
> 1) You can always install OSS. I'm not clear on how to do this; the only 
> time I did it was a few years ago when it was the simple way to get a 
> weird audio card working in RH8. I paid for it, in that case, and it was 
> easy and worked well.
> 2) What version of RealPlayer? Could you switch to HelixPlayer, Real's 
> sort-of-open-source, community-oriented player? Maybe it's better at 
> using ALSA. I'm not clear on the differences.
> 
>> Matt Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/16/2004 08:42 AM, Ben Vitale wrote:
>>>
>>>> 9 Time(s): application mozilla-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
>>>> 2 Time(s): application realplay.bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
>>>>
>>>> I have a feeling these errors are why I cannot hear audio in 
>>>> RealPlayer often times. How can I get rid of this problem?
>>>>
>>>> I'm running FC2, kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2.
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is sort of a guess: FC2 uses ALSA sound, rather than OSS. Unless 
>>> you intentionally installed OSS, you probably need to tell RealPlayer 
>>> to use ALSA, instead of OSS. I don't have RealPlayer, but if you can 
>>> find an option for that (I've seen similar things in XMMS, for 
>>> example), that may help.
>>>
>>> --Matt
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

Isn't there an OSS module that is supposed to provide support within 
ALSA?  I remember reading this someplace.

-- 
Robin Laing