How to use OSS instead of PulseAudio?
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OSS4 is an alternative for ALSA, not for PulseAudio.
I tried OSS4 with ubuntu, the sound is good, perhaps better than ALSA, but i reverted back to ALSA because of a couple of problems:
- OSS4 does not detect automatically the plugging in of a headphones jack (at least for my audio card)
- the flash plugin work bad or crashes with OSS4
Anyway, I have some notes I saved from my short experience:
- add your user to the
audio
group; - install the package
linux-source
; - extract the tar archive installed with the previous package in
/usr/src/linux-source-3.2.0/
(or equivalent, depending on the kernel version) - create a symlink
/lib/modules/3.2.0-24-generic-pae/source
to/usr/src/linux-source-3.2.0/linux-source-3.2.0/
- install the packages
oss4-{base,source,dkms,gtk}
andliboss4-salsa2
- run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base
and choose OSS4 - modify
/etc/pulse/default.pa
- comment the line:
load-module module-udev-detect
- add the line:
load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input mmap=0
- comment the line:
- run
gstreamer-properties
and choose OSS4 create
~/.asoundrc
with content:pcm.!default { type oss device /dev/dsp } mixer.!default { type oss device /dev/dsp }
Good luck
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Nuno Santos
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Nuno Santos over 1 year
Sound was working fine with PulseAudio, but I installed something in order to try to get xawtv to work, but that just caused the audio to stop working.
So I tried to install some packages to get OSS to work, because I read that OSS is better than PulseAudio (is that true?)
Anyway, I'm unable to get OSS to work either. What packages do I need to install, and how do I get this set up?
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Nuno Santos almost 12 yearsIs OSS4 better than PulseAudio?