Open Sound System (how to start)

Hi, can anyone help me with OSS sound service?
Ive tryd and configure oss with the ArchWiki.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Open_Sound_System
For playing more then one sound at the same time im using the 4Front Virtual mixer.
My problem is that now its configured as described in the wiki, i do have sound. But just for one application at the time. If i start oss as root with the "soundon" command in a consule I can play more applications at the same time. To try and fix this I just added
# Starts oss sound system
/usr/lib/oss/bin/soundon
in /etc/rc.conf
It works now, but while booting/shutting down i get a few warnings that oss is already running. So does anyone know a better way to start OSS?

Control Panel->Admin. Tools->Services
Or if you have added Computer Icon to desktop (right click desktop->Personalise->Change desktop icons
then you can left-click it selecting Manage where you see Services & Apps

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I want to move/rename the articles in the wiki to their full names but they are commonly referred to by their shorter names even though the longer names would improve clarity. I've been cleaning up redirections in the wiki anyway so it would be too much of a bother to add a few more things to my list of redirections to clean up. Thoughts?

ngoonee wrote:Why not have OSS redirect to Open Sound System and similarly for alsa? Though I think that's what you're suggesting.. in that case, go for it
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Video at an event where person was using a sound system. The venue was an indoor riding ring. There is ecko from the sound system. How do I lessen this using the audio effects? tks sarah

Unfortunately, even with a program like Adobe Audition, there is not much that you can do about this. It is the ambience from the arena.
Now, you might look into using a Compression VST and some EQ, to minimize it. I do not believe that PE has either of these by default, but it can use many VST plug-ins. I'd look here and see what they have. You will have to experiment to see which ones work with PE. If they do not, I *think* that Audacity will accept VST plug-ins. I know that PrPro and Audition both do.
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I have installed and configured OSS following the Wiki, but I still get no sound. Any idea of what problem this is?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by R_Rios (2009-09-22 21:26:31)

I have also have a problem with OSS4 on KDE 4.3. I have installed installed and got the sound but the volume output is too low even When I set it to max
> ossmix
Selected mixer 0/High Definition Audio ALC883
Known controls are:
jack.green.mode <front|rear|center/LFE|side|pcm4|input> (currently front)
jack.green [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 29.9:29.9 dB)
jack.green.mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.pink.mode <front|rear|center/LFE|side|pcm4|input> (currently front)
jack.pink [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 29.9:29.9 dB)
jack.pink.mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.fp-pink.mode <front|rear|center/LFE|side|pcm4|input> (currently front)
jack.fp-pink [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 29.9:29.9 dB)
jack.fp-pink.mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.blue.mode <front|rear|center/LFE|side|pcm4|input> (currently input)
jack.blue [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 29.9:29.9 dB)
jack.blue.mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
jack.fp-green.mode <front|rear|center/LFE|side|pcm4|input> (currently front)
jack.fp-green [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 29.9:29.9 dB)
jack.fp-green.mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.mic1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.fp-mic1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.linein1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.fp-headphone1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.green1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.input-mix1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
record.mix.mute.mic2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.fp-mic2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.linein2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.fp-headphone2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.green2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix.mute.input-mix2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
record.mix2 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.mic [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.fp-mic [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.linein [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.fp-headphone [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.green [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.input-mix <mic|fp-mic|linein> (currently mic)
misc.front-mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.input-mix-mute1 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.front1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 37.4:37.4 dB)
misc.front2 <front|input-mix> (currently front)
misc.rear-mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.input-mix-mute2 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.rear1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.rear2 <rear|input-mix> (currently rear)
misc.center/lfe-mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.input-mix-mute3 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.center/lfe1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.center/lfe2 <center/LFE|input-mix> (currently center/LFE)
misc.side-mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.input-mix-mute4 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.side1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.side2 <side|input-mix> (currently side)
misc.pcm4-mute ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.input-mix-mute5 ON|OFF (currently OFF)
misc.pcm41 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 46.4:46.4 dB)
misc.pcm42 <pcm4|input-mix> (currently pcm4)
vmix0-enable ON|OFF (currently ON)
vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 48000) (Read-only)
vmix0-channels <Stereo|Multich> (currently Stereo)
vmix0-src <Fast|High|OFF> (currently Fast)
vmix0-outvol <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
vmix0-invol <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm8 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB) ("knotify4")
vmix0.pcm9 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm10 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm11 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
How to Increase volume to max level?
[edit]
Some extra info
> ossinfo
Version info: OSS 4.2 (b 2000/200909090620) (0x00040100) GPL
Platform: Linux/x86_64 2.6.30-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 9 14:16:44 CEST 2009 (moody)
Number of audio devices: 8
Number of audio engines: 12
Number of MIDI devices: 0
Number of mixer devices: 1
Device objects
0: osscore0 OSS core services
1: oss_hdaudio0 Intel HD Audio interrupts=13214547 (13381872)
HD Audio controller Intel HD Audio
Vendor ID 0x808627d8
Subvendor ID 0x1458a002
Codec 2: ALC883 (0x10ec0883/0x1458c603)
2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services
MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)
Mixer devices
0: High Definition Audio ALC883 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)
Audio devices
HD Audio play front /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (device index 0)
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 play spdif-out /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0 (device index 5)
HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 (device index 6)
HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 (device index 7)
Nodes
/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_ac3 -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0
/dev/dsp_mmap -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_multich -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
I also ran "osstest" command and I only twice and rest there is no sound
No sound
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1 (audio engine 1): HD Audio play rear
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47995.00 Hz (-0.01%)>
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm2 (audio engine 2): HD Audio play center/LFE
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47993.00 Hz (-0.01%)>
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm3 (audio engine 3): HD Audio play side
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47993.00 Hz (-0.01%)>
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm4 (audio engine 4): HD Audio play pcm4
- Performing audio playback test...
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 (audio engine 6): HD Audio rec mix
- Skipping input only device
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 (audio engine 7): HD Audio rec mix
- Skipping input only device
I hear the Sound
dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): HD Audio play front
Note! Device is in use (by PID 0/VMIX) but will try anyway
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47980.00 Hz (-0.04%)>
/dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0 (audio engine 5): HD Audio play spdif-out
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47993.00 Hz (-0.01%)>
Please help
Last edited by cool (2009-09-23 12:07:12)

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The Klipsch system does not have its own Optical/SPDIF IN
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I just uninstalled ubuntu on my laptop and installed arch but I dont get the sound working.
The strange thing is, when I command "osstest" I hear the test sounds . But no music player nor browser is playing sounds.
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lspci | grep -i audio
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Welcome to Arch, roel0. Congratulations on solving your own problem
Topics like this don't get closed; please just mark it [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).
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