Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune output bundles

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 14:04 CEST, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Philippe Roussel wrote:
> > Le 01/05/2012 12:24, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> do you have a clue what sound system should Cynthiune use on Linux? I
> >> suppose oss "as emulation".
> > Yep, oss should work until someone writes an alsa backend.
> >
> Now this is becoming a debian/linux question...
>
> I found out that I have to install "oss-compat" and then load the
> "snd-pcm-oss" module.
>
> Not very straight-forward...
Maybe adding some hints to the README about that would be a
good idea.

>
> but now it works!!! And Cynthiune plays MP3s.... almost better than on
> OpenBSD! Even if this is a quite oldish computer...
>
> Success :)
>
> Now we can continue to work on it. There are already less warnings. If
> it isn't "worse" than before it might be good to release it before
> touching it too much, but I don't know the previous state.
> Getting it to play on NetBSD and FreeBSD is of course cool too.

Does it build for you there, or you just don't get sound out of it?
Access to an audio interface is usually not shared. If there is an audio
application running, which already claimed the interface, then Cynthiune
will fail with OSS to get access to it. Therefore you usually want to have
a sound daemon running, which claims the access to the device, and
manages the different clients, allowing them to play music in parallel.
If OSS doesn't work there for other reasons, then maybe the esound or arts
output bundle may work. They work both for me on OpenBSD.

hth,
Sebastian

>
> Riccardo
>