DirectSound problems - dlls/dsound/mixer.c

[Juergen Wieczorek]

Am Dienstag, den 01.11.2005, 07:13 -0500 schrieb Vincent Béron:
> Le mar 01/11/2005 à 05:03, Juergen Wieczorek a écrit :
> [snip]
> > Dear Vincent,
> Hi Juergen,
> 
> > I have been rpmbuilding the sources on my FC3 system with the latest
> > standard kernel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3, which like all previous Fedora 2.6.x
> > kernels has no support for OSS.
> 
> The binary packages were built against kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3, as that
> was the latest available on the release date of 0.9.
> 
> > My rpm system is: 
> > rpm-4.3.2-21
> > rpm-python-4.3.2-21
> > rpm-libs-4.3.2-21
> > rpm-devel-4.3.2-21
> > rpm-build-4.3.2-21
> > 
> > My installed alsa rpms are:
> > alsaplayer-0.99.76-3
> > alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
> > alsa-lib-1.0.6-8.FC3
> 
> You're missing alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-8.FC3. No wonder you get no sound
> with ALSA :)
> 
> > I run a few 'non-rpmed' binary packages like Java, LimeWire, a
> > homebanking solution and some games, but nothing that IMHO could in such
> > a way interfere with the sound system.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > Correction to my prev posting:
> > When the binary wine-0.9 package is installed, I can choose "ALSA" or
> > "OSS" in winecfg as sound setting and have sound.
> > With the compiled version only "OSS" gives me sound.
> 
> See above for missing alsa-lib-devel package.
> 
> > For either version:
> > When choosing "Automatic" to auto-detect the sound system, both come up
> > with "OSS" though it is definitvely not installed.
> 
> ALSA comes with OSS emulation, so technically it is "available" for
> applications.
> 
> > Hitting "Configure" does not work too. I get the message that it "could
> > not open wineoss.drv or winealsa.drv", though that may not be
> > implemented yet.
> 
> Can't answer on that one, my build system doesn't have a sound card for
> now :(
> 
> Vincent
> 

It took me some time to sort my system out, but finally I got it.
That sound was working at all when set to "OSS", was due to the cross-
platform libao-0.8.5 which I had installed earlier and then forgot.

With my next system setup, I swear, I'll take down a full documentation
of all the projects/lib that I try.

Thanks anyway.

-- 
Juergen Wieczorek
Hamburg / Germany