Open Sound System

Is a patch even needed? OSS works fine for me on kernel 3.12..

Thank you very much for the patch it worked.

I installed yesterday kernel 3.12.1 from Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA and today I couldn't get OSS to work so I applied your patch to /usr/lib/oss/build/osscore.c and then the modules build successfully.

NOTE: I'm using OSSv4.2 builded from git repository and the last commit that I had in my version was "[bddf15] Added alternative directory for soundon.user under Linux".

I compiled the Git repository version and it says



Why does it seem the Git version is two years late, whereas the latest binaries are 2008? The source archives respond with a build ID 2008.

I tried to use this patch on my 2008 build I already had installed and it only got past osscore, then failed to compile the drivers.

I compiled the Git version and that got past the drivers as well, but then I got this:



And this:

keantoken wrote:I compiled the Git repository version and it says

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Build ID will be 2006

Why does it seem the Git version is two years late, whereas the latest binaries are 2008? The source archives respond with a build ID 2008.

I tried to use this patch on my 2008 build I already had installed and it only got past osscore, then failed to compile the drivers.

I compiled the Git version and that got past the drivers as well, but then I got this:

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ERROR: could not insert 'osscore': Invalid argument
Loading the osscore module failed
make: *** [install] Error 60

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$ ossxmix
/dev/mixer: No such file or directory
$ soundon
bash: soundon: command not found


Do you have a sort of Ubuntu?
If it is so difficult for you, you may try Gentoo or other sort of "easy Linux".
_http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OSS

Removing pulseaudio completely
_http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-876357-start-0.html

How to Install Gentoo Linux from Ubuntu
_http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Gentoo-Linux-from-Ubuntu

Gentoo Handbook
_http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/

No, I'm using Debian. I moved away from Ubuntu a long time ago and even had to get rid of LMDE.

keantoken wrote:No, I'm using Debian. I moved away from Ubuntu a long time ago and even had to get rid of LMDE.

It was an experiment with telepathy _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy
Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.
Since you do not explain why and how you are doing something, one has to read your thoughts. It does not always work. Perhaps, I need some training on Ubuntu forum.

keantoken wrote:No, I'm using Debian. I moved away from Ubuntu a long time ago and even had to get rid of LMDE.

What compiler are you using to build osscore?
If gcc-4.8 try using an earlier version gcc-4.7 or gcc-4.6 to check whether the outcome is any different.

How do I change the compiler? If OSS used a make script this would be easy, but I can't figure out how to get it to build with an older GCC version.

keantoken wrote:How do I change the compiler? If OSS used a make script this would be easy, but I can't figure out how to get it to build with an older GCC version.

"gcc" is a "symbolic link":



Symlink howto: _http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/02/unix-symlink-example/
_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

igorzwx wrote:"gcc" is a "symbolic link":

That sure explains a lot!

Well, it didn't work when I compiled with GCC 4.7 or 4.8. I have been using these previously with OSS with no problem.

keantoken wrote:

igorzwx wrote:"gcc" is a "symbolic link":

That sure explains a lot!

Well, it didn't work when I compiled with GCC 4.7 or 4.8. I have been using these previously with OSS with no problem.

You may learn more about compilers with Gentoo.

How to Install Gentoo Linux from Ubuntu _http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Gentoo-Linux-from-Ubuntu
Removing pulseaudio completely _http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-876357-start-0.html
OSS4 Manual _http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OSS
Gentoo Handbook _http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/

I'm having trouble with getting OSS4.2 build 2008 going on kernel 3.12.7
I custom built the kernel, it failed to build OSS from OSS 4.2 build 2007
So i downloaded it, ran this patch, followed instructions:
make build
make deb - to make the deb packages

Running 'dpkg -i <compiled deb package>' I get:


My gcc is version 4.8.2




Any idea why the build would make just fine but fail the kernel module build?

Thanks for any help!

keantoken wrote:

igorzwx wrote:"gcc" is a "symbolic link":

That sure explains a lot!

Well, it didn't work when I compiled with GCC 4.7 or 4.8. I have been using these previously with OSS with no problem.

Since telepathy often fails, one may need special tools to hack into brains of Ubuntu/Debian users remotely.

They are several symlinks to hack:



See also:



Howto is here: _http://askubuntu.com/questions/26498/choose-gcc-and-g-version/26502#26502

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 (development branch) now and so far OSSv4 worked with every kernel in this release (there were 3.12 and now they are 3.13). The default GCC is 4.8 and this also worked but maybe it's a little bit different than the one in Debian.





I make my own packages of OSSv4 using the guide from Ubuntu Wiki but a little bit modified.



Now you should apply the patch



OSS needs an empty directory to build in. Using the example below will create a directory in your /home folder (~)



Build & Install



It's also worth to change a setting in configure file before making the OSSv4 package.



This will allow for setting Production quality in ossxmix.