Re: [gentoo-dev] sound for esssolo1 (solved)

[AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:32:28 +0000 Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:16:31 +0200 AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) wrote:
> >
> > > Collins Richey wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm confused.  On every other distro that I've used (Mandrake, Caldera, Vectorlinux - all all 2.4.x kernels), all I have to do to get sound for xfce, etc., is to compile the esssolo1 kernel module and do a modprobe (or equivalent at boot time) for esssolo1.  The esssolo1 and soundcore modules get loaded, and the sound card works.
> > > >
> > > > Why won't this work on Gentoo?  I'm using the identical kernel compile that works on every other distro.   The modules get loaded, but sound is dead.
> > > >
> > > I think you need the play binary coming with sox for xfce.
> > > If not try to fine the sound player binarie used by xfce and run it on
> > > the console.
> > >
> >
> > I've submitted my question to xfce as well, but no definite answer yet.  One thing for sure, xfce definitely requires sox, so why wasn't sox merged when I merged xfce?  I had to do it manually.
> 
> OK, the final answer is:  /dev/dsp needs 666 permission, and xfce needs a dependancy for sox.
> 

> --
Do you have a line like this in /etc/modules.conf ?

options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0666
snd_device_gid=0 snd_device_uid=0

Well sox is not required for xfce to run. as an alternative you can use
for example aplay coming with alsa-utils.  But i think it is a good idea
to make it runtime
dependant on sox if eighter oss or alsa is in use.

achim~

> Collins Richey
> Denver Area
> Gentoo_rc5 XFCE
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