Open Sound System

I have read http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/programming.html and included that in my Makefile:

It worked flawlessly on Gentoo. But in Ubuntu I'm faced with that:

So cc fails at finding <soundcard.h>. Moreover, there's no usual OSSLIBDIR location, /usr/lib/oss. The oss4-dev package installs soundcard.h to /usr/include/linux/, replacing the original header. How should I handle such distros? Or is it a bug in Ubuntu package?

L29Ah wrote:I have read http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/programming.html and included that in my Makefile:

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include /etc/oss.conf
CFLAGS += -I$(OSSLIBDIR)/include/sys

It worked flawlessly on Gentoo. But in Ubuntu I'm faced with that:

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‰ cat etc/oss.conf
OSSETCDIR=/etc/oss4
OSSVARDIR=/var/lib/oss4
OSSDKMSDIR=/var/lib/dkms/oss4/4.2-build2005

So cc fails at finding <soundcard.h>. Moreover, there's no usual OSSLIBDIR location, /usr/lib/oss. The oss4-dev package installs soundcard.h to /usr/include/linux/, replacing the original header. How should I handle such distros? Or is it a bug in Ubuntu package?

That OSS4 package in Ubuntu/Debian repositories is known to be buggy.

You can build OSS4 from mercurial.
The manual is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenS ... rom_Source

You can test OSS4 on a LiveCD without installing Ubuntu on your computer.

Can I test OSS4 on LiveCD booted from USB?

tysonedriscoll wrote:Can I test OSS4 on LiveCD booted from USB?

Yes.

Step 1: Boot LiveCD or LiveUSB.

Step 2: Remove PulseAudio.

Step 3: Install OSS4 over ALSA.

Step 4: Run OSS4:



NOTE: You do not need to unload ALSA modules before running OSS4.

Step 5: Run osstest:





and so on.

The [outdated] manual is here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3933&p=17359#p17316

Thanks for quick response!

As for the original question, /etc/oss.conf is just text. You can just add the correct OSSLIBDIR to /etc/oss.conf...