OSS and ALSA

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:22:07 +0100, David Demelier  
<demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:

> I mean audacious, not VLC
>
>
> 2013/1/21 David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com>
>
>> Don't enable OSS4 nor ALSA, VLC can run fine with FreeBSD kernel mixer
>> support (that has a OSS compatibility support).
>>
>> Just use defaults, it will always work more when you use default  
>> options.
>>
>>
>> 2013/1/21 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi :)
>>>
>>> I know it's a topic for the multimedia list, but there's less traffic  
>>> on
>>> that list, so I hope it's okay to post it to both lists :S.
>>>
>>> I'll test the snd_hdspe driver. It's working for the 2 analog IOs of a
>>> HDSPe AIO, but other ports are missing by jackd.
>>>
>>> I was asked to use mpd, but I never used this kind of media player  
>>> before.
>>> Usually I'm using pro-audio apps on Linux and seldom I use "averaged"
>>> media players and as mentioned before, I never used this kind of  
>>> player.
>>>
>>> I don't know how to use mpd or the Gnome GUI for it and sonata failed  
>>> to
>>> build.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I could use an "averaged" media player to get access to all  
>>> ports?
>>>
>>> Is there a way to automatically get all dependencies when building
>>> applications?
>>>
>>> To me it's already strange that audacious is build without the output
>>> plugins, however, I'll build them now and I get
>>>
>>> root at freebsd:/usr/home/**rocketmouse # cd  
>>> /usr/ports/multimedia/**audacious-plugins
>>> ; make install clean
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                     ┌─────────────────────────────**
>>> ──────────────────────────────**─────────┐
>>>                     │ Options for audacious-plugins 3.3.3
>>>                │
>>>                     │ ┌─────────────────────────────**
>>> ──────────────────────────────**─────┐ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] AAC         AAC/MP4 format
>>>               │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] ADPLUG      ADPLUG decoder
>>>               │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] ALSA        ALSA audio architecture
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] AMIDI       Amidi decoder
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] AOSD        Audacious OSD
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] AOSDXCOMP   Audacious OSD X  
>>> Composite
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] BS2B        BS2B effect
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] CDAUDIO     CD audio input
>>>               │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] CUE         Embedded CUE sheets
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] DBUS        D-Bus IPC system
>>>               │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] FFAUDIO     FFAudio decoder
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] FLAC        FLAC lossless audio  
>>> codec
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] GIO         GIO support
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ │         [*] JACK        JACK audio server
>>>              │ │
>>>                     │ └─────────────v(+)────────────**
>>> ───────────────────────────45%**─────┘ │
>>>                     ├─────────────────────────────**
>>> ──────────────────────────────**─────────┤
>>>                     │                   <  OK  >          <Cancel>
>>>                 │
>>>                     └─────────────────────────────**
>>> ──────────────────────────────**─────────┘
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ===>  Found saved configuration for audacious-plugins-3.3.3
>>> => audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.**bz2 doesn't seem to exist in
>>> /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>>> => Attempting to fetch http://distfiles.audacious-**
>>> media-player.org/audacious-**plugins-3.3.3.tar.bz2<http://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org/audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.bz2>
>>> audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.**bz2               100% of 1699 kB  571  
>>> kBps
>>> ===>  Extracting for audacious-plugins-3.3.3
>>> => SHA256 Checksum OK for audacious-plugins-3.3.3.tar.**bz2.
>>> ===>  Patching for audacious-plugins-3.3.3
>>> ===>   audacious-plugins-3.3.3 depends on executable: audacious - found
>>> ===>   audacious-plugins-3.3.3 depends on file:
>>> /usr/local/lib/oss/include/**sys/soundcard.h - not found
>>> ===>    Verifying install for  
>>> /usr/local/lib/oss/include/**sys/soundcard.h
>>> in /usr/ports/audio/oss
>>> ===>  oss-4.2.b2007 requires kernel source to be installed.
>>> *** [install] Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/audio/oss.
>>> *** [build-depends] Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/**audacious-plugins.
>>> *** [install] Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/**audacious-plugins.
>>>
>>> Ok, I need the kernel source, I bet I'll find what to do using Google,
>>> but I wonder why OSS already is working, when it's not installed. I  
>>> suspect
>>> this will replace something that already is part of the kernel? If so,
>>> could it break other ports?
>>>
>>> I also wonder why ALSA doesn't work, when it's installed and the sound
>>> card's driver is installed.
>>>
>>> FWIW, after an ports update there already was the application finder  
>>> icon
>>> missing and now there's no icon for audacious for the menu. I know how  
>>> to
>>> give them icons, I just want to inform, that there are icons missing.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ralf
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>> --
>> Demelier David
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