Open Sound System

Well, that's a bummer.

As long as the Optical keeps working like a champ I'll be OK, I guess.

Thank you cesium, will do. :D S/PDIF works on all CMI878x cards because it doesn't need any external chips. The DG/DGX are not supported by OSS. Er, what? The driver cannot make regular sound work, because it depends on stuff other than my sound card? I don't totally understand. :o Why does osstest ...

Good news, it seems to be working now. But only Optical Out / SPDIF [pcm1] - which is fine by me. The MPD Wiki had this to say: MPD includes support for OSSv3. OSS4 will work, except for the mixer. So the OSS piece in my musicpd.conf, is now more or less: audio_output { type "oss" name &qu...

osstest -V *** Scanning sound adapter #-1 *** /dev/oss/oss_cmi878x0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): Asus Xonar (unknown) (MultiChannel) - Performing audio playback test... <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47965.00 Hz (-0.07%)> /dev/oss/oss_cmi878x0/pcm1 (audio engine 6): Asus Xonar (unknown)...

I am unable to make it work, using OSS4 on FreeBSD 9 built from ports with the oss_cmi878x driver. I compiled out any conflicting audio modules from the kernel. The card is a newer PCI-e version, DGX, but it's the same as DG which has been out a while. Both are chipset " CMI 8786 ". I need...