topic title: guide how to use OSSv4 instead of ALSA
Posts: 13
fenrin
Joined: 10 Feb 2013
#1
OSS works for me under AntiX 13 beta, that's how I installed it:

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su
apt-get remove alsa-base
apt-get install gcc automake binutils DKMS libgtk2.0-dev oss-compat linux-headers-3.6.11-antix.1-486-smp
exit
(Note: the linux-headers version which matches the used kernel must be used)

Download the latest GPL licensed *.tar.bz2 archive from
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.4front-tech.com/developer/sources/stable/gpl/"
linktext was:"http://www.4front-tech.com/developer/so ... table/gpl/"
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. Extract it, navigate into its folder and then:

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mkdir ./BUILD
cd ./BUILD
../configure
make
su -c 'make install'
To have sound in gnome-mplayer add '-ao oss' below preferences→mplayer→additional parameters. ossxmix can be used as soundmixer (most other gui mixers are not supported). The sound in iceweasel works fine fine without any configuration changes.

To have sound in applications which use OpenAL edit the file alsoft.conf below etc/openal. A line"drivers=oss" must be added.

After a succesful installation of OSS, the commands soundon, soundoff will be available for the root user. And via the osstest command the sound can be tested. If (ALSA) sounddrivers were already loaded before OSS installation, then a restart might be required.