From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Davis Subject: Re: question regarding latest CS4205 laptop soundcard driver Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:09:11 -0500 Message-ID: <200202280309.WAA14147@renoir.op.net> Received: from renoir.op.net (root@renoir.op.net [207.29.195.4]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id EAA03931 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:09:40 +0100 In-reply-to: Your message of "27 Feb 2002 14:11:18 EST." <1014837078.10692.18.camel@meowing.memh.uc.edu> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ivica Bukvic Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org >I agree, my "flawless" statement was certainly overrated. Yet, the >question remains: what am I to do as a musician needing to utilize my >portable laptop while the apps/software I currently use get ported to >the JACK architecture (if they get ported at all)? 1a) Get Abramo to post (or point to) detailed information on using a "share" PCM device 1b) Get Abramo or Jaroslav to post (or point to) detailed information on setting up libaoss (specifically, how to map /dev/dspN to a specific ALSA PCM device) 2) edit your ~/.asoundrc file to define a "share" PCM device 3) run all your legacy (OSS) apps with LD_PRELOAD set to preload libaoss. a small wrapper script is useful for this; ALSA may already come with one (*) 4) run all your newer (ALSA) apps with an argument telling it to use the "share" PCM device and you should be done. if, that is, the "share" device type is really working. if not, you can help us debug it. --p (*) something like: % cat aoss #!/bin/sh export LD_PRELOAD=/where/i/put/libaoss.so exec $* % then you can just run OSS apps like this: % aoss oss-app-name oss-app-args... i know this appears hacky. like i said, there is no way around this because of the way OSS was designed. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel