retitle 318134 okle should document how to have the ogle back-end use ALSA severity 318134 wishlist stop
On July 13, 2005 17:44, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Package: okle > Version: 0.4+cvs20040728-1 > Severity: normal > > okle (when trying to watch DVD) tries to use OSS device /dev/dsp > > The exact error line: > FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the oss audio driver at /dev/dsp > > > This is incorrect, because > #1: OSS is deprecated (used only for compatibility) This is true, but ALSA can include OSS compatibility, so it shouldn't be hard for most users to get oKle running. Also, oKle is only the front-end for ogle, and ogle does support ALSA. Have a look at the ogle documentation (man oglerc), and /usr/share/ogle/oglerc. > #2: KDE use arts, so that there are some access control > of audio hardware. Without this access control you > find a lot of program crash due to unavailable or > unknow trafic in devices. This is also true, and as you suggest in your follow-up "artsdsp okle" should work, but this would force oKle users to use arts, something many people don't like to do - and don't have to do. The truth is that oKle and ogle are dead upstream, and will soon be overtaken by Kaffeine in terms of features, and so while it would be good for oKle/ogle to automatically use ALSA (and arts) if possible, in reality this isn't likely to be solved anytime soon, unfortunately. What I will do is add a note explaining the situation and the artsdsp work-around in the next oKle upload (which will happen as part of the gcc 4.0 transition in the next month or so). Until then, I'll leave this bug open, but retitled. Cheers, Christopher Martin
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