Gnome OSS mixer (support?)

Hello all. Seeing as OSS came back to the official repos I finally went through the pain of installing it on my test setup (ALSA is blacklisted, user is in audio group, ossmix is set up, etc.)
Sound works and all, however I'd like to be able to use the latest GNOME integrated mixer (which based on the OSS wiki page should support it). Sadly, it does not.
OSS works fine (flashplayer is working, SMplayer with Mplayer2 is working) but not gnome test (in gnome settings).
I have ossvol (for volume control, for now). Any idea on how to get the supposedly supported mixer working?

You can use ossxmix if you really desire a GUI, but currently gnome, xfce and kde's native mixers don't work with oss4 unless patched. If you google arround you are likely to find a patch for your mixer, but these are mostly dirty hacks. Use ossxmix for now.

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Hi all,
Is ther any difference between the OSS and support packages?
Plz explain for this one.
regatrds
vijay

Hi,
IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE
Support packages provide a bundle of fixes in electronic form that are imported into the SAP system. These Support packages must be imported in order (starting with the very first one) and they cannot be skipped. All fixes within a Support package must be imported together, there is no ability to pick and choose the fixes.
The second form of fixes that SAP provides is via OSS notes that pertain to specific problems. These notes must be manually applied to the system, as these fixes are generally not available in electronic form at the time the note is published. Care must be taken to ensure that the note is entered correctly otherwise new problems may occur, or the existing problem is not corrected.
A Support package may contain fixes that also exist as individual notes, but many times they contain fixes that are only provided in Support packages. SAPs strategy for providing intra-release fixes is through Support packages and the use of individual notes is decreasing.
I hope this information could help you.
Note: Points always encourage me to reply !!

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Can I tell it to NOT be an "input" except when I am using it?

Easiest way is to mute everything and try yo unmute one or two things at a time until you have sound back (hiss free of course).
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfc … ew_Xfce4.6
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I know that these speakers are actually pretty loud because other distros were LOUD.
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Thanks.

To clarify, I don't actually care if I use oss or alsa or a
kerosene-powered dust buster. I just want to be able to hear youtube and
Skype normally. And the problem isn't just Skype--also youtube is very
quiet.
I removed oss and alsa was still there. Or it claimed to be. I rebooted
but amixer and alsaconf were 'command not found'
I installed oss again and soundon gave a crazy output about conflicting
drivers. So I rebooted. When I now click on my Xfce mixer panel addon it says
GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices. Some sound system
specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may also be a permissions
problem.
So I added myself (once again) to the audio group and installed oss again. Now I see this:
[kirk@localhost ~]$ /etc/rc.d/oss restart
:: Stopping Open Sound System [BUSY] /etc/rc.d/oss: line 18: /usr/sbin/soundoff: Permission denied
[FAIL]
:: Starting Open Sound System [BUSY] /etc/rc.d/oss: line 8: /usr/sbin/soundon: Permission denied
[FAIL]
[kirk@localhost ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/oss restart
:: Stopping Open Sound System [BUSY] OSS not loaded.
[DONE]
:: Starting Open Sound System [DONE]
[kirk@localhost ~]$ ossinfo
Version info: OSS 4.1 (b 1052b/200905252233) (0x00040100) GPL
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 20 07:06:02 UTC 2009 (localhost)
Number of audio devices: 7
Number of audio engines: 11
Number of mixer devices: 1
Device objects
0: osscore0 OSS core services
1: oss_hdaudio0 Intel HD Audio interrupts=502 (507)
HD Audio controller Intel HD Audio
Vendor ID 0x808627d8
Subvendor ID 0x103c2a59
Codec 2: ALC888 (0x10ec0888/0x103c2a59)
2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services
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0: High Definition Audio ALC888 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)
Audio devices
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HD Audio play rear /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1 (device index 1)
HD Audio play center/LFE /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm2 (device index 2)
HD Audio play side /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm3 (device index 3)
HD Audio play pcm4 /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm4 (device index 4)
HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 (device index 5)
HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 (device index 6)
/dev/dsp -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_in -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_out -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_mmap -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_multich -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
I am a bit lost now.
EDIT But now when I click on the mixer it says "Sound card: High Definition Audio ALC888 (OSS v4 Audio Mixer)" and when I select controls there are approximately sixty options. Really, sixty.
Last edited by CaptainKirk (2009-06-10 07:32:33)

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Last edited by heldiho53 (2015-05-31 20:21:40)

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