Making ALSA apps run on OSS driver

Making ALSA apps run on OSS driver

[Pharaoh .]

Hi

For my OMAP 2430 board, I have a working OSS driver , but all my audio/video
applications are written
for ALSA, since we had all ALSA drivers for previous board. Now I want to
use the OSS driver as it is
for 1 week and run my applications using it, I know this is not the best
thing to do but currently I dont
have time to write ALSA driver from scratch.

I have heard about OSS emulation in ALSA i.e. any read/write to /dev/dsp
will go to my ALSA driver
but is there any way to do the reverse i.e. apps using ALSA interface should
somehow talk to OSS
driver? What all changes I need to make and where?

-Pharaoh.

Re: Making ALSA apps run on OSS driver

[Clemens Ladisch]

Pharaoh . wrote:
> I have heard about OSS emulation in ALSA i.e. any read/write to /dev/dsp will go to my ALSA driver
> but is there any way to do the reverse i.e. apps using ALSA interface should somehow talk to OSS
> driver?

The alsa-plugins package has the "oss" plugin for this:
http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-plugins/raw-file/878b7784425c/doc/README-pcm-oss


HTH
Clemens

Re: Making ALSA apps run on OSS driver

[Pharaoh .]

On Dec 6, 2007 5:04 PM, Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@fastmail.net> wrote:

> Pharaoh . wrote:
> > I have heard about OSS emulation in ALSA i.e. any read/write to /dev/dsp
> will go to my ALSA driver
> > but is there any way to do the reverse i.e. apps using ALSA interface
> should somehow talk to OSS
> > driver?
>
> The alsa-plugins package has the "oss" plugin for this:
>
> http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-plugins/raw-file/878b7784425c/doc/README-pcm-oss
>
>
> HTH
> Clemens
>

Yeah, I got it already...and this just works !! No hassles!!

-Pharaoh.