Open Sound System

4Front is happy to announce the release of Open Sound System v4.2 Build 2017 sources and binaries for:

• Linux - 2.6, 3.x and 4.x kernels
• FreeBSD - 11-RELEASE
• Solaris 10/11
• SCO OSR6
• UnixWare 7
  
• Drivers for LynxOne sound card from LynxStudio Technologies (http://www.lynxstudio.com) have now been Open Sourced.

Thanks so much for the new release!
Unfortunately my new sound card does not work with OSS :/
Neither with ALSA...

It's a PowerColor DEVIL HDX with the new high-end C-Media CM8888 chip. Any chances it could get OSS support?

Thanks for the update!

Quick question, has the 32-bit (x86) Linux TAR version been uploaded yet?
The link doesn't work for me:
http://www.opensound.com/release/oss-li ... 86.tar.bz2

Hello,

very excited about the update however the FreeBSD 11 (amd64) version is not available for download as well.

Download link is broken: http://www.opensound.com/release/oss-fr ... 2-2017.txz

irage wrote:Hello,

very excited about the update however the FreeBSD 11 (amd64) version is not available for download as well.

Download link is broken: http://www.opensound.com/release/oss-fr ... 2-2017.txz

Hi,

The correct download link is: http://www.opensound.com/release/oss-fr ... 2-2017.txz

Sorry for the newb question. I've had my wonderful lynxone in storage since the death of kmixer with vista. I saw this announcement and figured would be the perfect time to rebuild my music machine to use the lynxone again.

I've now spent 12+ hours trying to get this pkg to work on FreeBSD 11 with no success yet. I have the lynxone driver sources and they build... I can see other audio devices on the system but no lynxone, hard hang if I soundon...

So... I'm not tied to any particular distro, I'm a newb that's looking to output some music. Would it be possible to point to some proven instructions for any distro to get oss 4.2 working with a sound card? Today I'm afraid I am following fragmented instructions that are both new and old.

I'm really excited by the potential but surprised how difficult it is to get a sound package to work.

Thanks!

eri wrote:Sorry for the newb question. I've had my wonderful lynxone in storage since the death of kmixer with vista. I saw this announcement and figured would be the perfect time to rebuild my music machine to use the lynxone again.

I've now spent 12+ hours trying to get this pkg to work on FreeBSD 11 with no success yet. I have the lynxone driver sources and they build... I can see other audio devices on the system but no lynxone, hard hang if I soundon...

So... I'm not tied to any particular distro, I'm a newb that's looking to output some music. Would it be possible to point to some proven instructions for any distro to get oss 4.2 working with a sound card? Today I'm afraid I am following fragmented instructions that are both new and old.

I'm really excited by the potential but surprised how difficult it is to get a sound package to work.

Thanks!

I maintain oss AUR (Arch User Repository) packages for Arch Linux which should 'just work' using the standard instructions for installing AUR packages:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oss/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oss-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oss-nonfree/

alexdw wrote:Thanks for the update!

Quick question, has the 32-bit (x86) Linux TAR version been uploaded yet?
The link doesn't work for me:
http://www.opensound.com/release/oss-li ... 86.tar.bz2

@dev: Thanks for fixing the link.

alexdw wrote:

alexdw wrote:Thanks for the update!

Quick question, has the 32-bit (x86) Linux TAR version been uploaded yet?
The link doesn't work for me:
http://www.opensound.com/release/oss-li ... 86.tar.bz2

@dev: Thanks for fixing the link.

Thanks @dev for fixing this link. Its really helpful.

irage wrote:Hello,

very excited about the update however the FreeBSD 11 (amd64) version is not available for download as well.

Download link is broken: http://www.opensound.com/release/oss-fr ... 2-2017.txz

I just get a 404 page.