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soundman · Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 1

Hi All, my first post here so keeping my fingers crossed.

Normally I can find everything I need thru Google, but now I need help from the experts! I have a Java Sound application running under Puppy 4.0 (and JRE1.6.0_07), but now I want to implement 5.1 surround sound. I've configured my .asoundrc file so that part is all working well.

Here's the issue - Java always uses /dev/dsp as the driver. I've read in a few other linux distro forums that all you need to do is uninstall OSS to force Java to use ALSA /dev/snd/ drivers, but nobody says how this is done. It is not listed in PETget so I assume it's part of the core kernel, and I'm not at the level of building my own Puppy.

Is there any easy way this can be done?

TIA.

disciple · Posted: Wed 16 Dec 2009, 14:42 Post subject:

I don't think Puppy includes oss - it just has Alsa's "oss emulation". Maybe you can configure it to disable that, but if Java really uses oss unless it is not present, then I'd say it is a stupid program Smile

Surely it can be configured to use Alsa...

Patriot · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734

Hmmm .....

disciple is correct ... puppy only have alsa installed with oss-emulation layer ... To try removing the oss emulation layer, you'll need to unload the modules ... all that has snd_seq*, snd_*_oss and snd_pcm ... example:

#lsmod | grep -e '_oss|_seq'

#rmmod [one module name]

Frankly, I'm not a fan of Java and I have no idea how Java can bork like this ... a little googling does seem to indicate a problematic library ...

Rgds

WB7ODYFred · Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Posts: 90 Location: Oregon & Washington

mknod /dev/dsp 14 3
mknod /dev/dsp1 14 19
mknod /dev/dsp2 14 35
mknod /dev/dsp3 14 51

chmod 777 /dev/dsp*

if needed mknod /dev/mixer 14 0
chmod 777 /dev/mixer

Fora USB Headset audio setup
rmmod snd-usb-audio
modprobe snd-usb-audio

Then try to play audio using the alsaplayer or vlc or gzine

vi /etc/modprobe.conf
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.22 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
alias sound-slot-0 snd-usb-audio
alias snd-card-1 snd-es1938
alias sound-slot-1 snd-es1938

/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa status
/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa start
/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa status

I have an ess esonic sound chip es1938 in my PC an plugged in a USB Headset for my audio use