I fixed the problem by removing OSS & installing the latest audiohd driver produced by Garrett D'Amore. Audiohd now attaches and works very well.
Big bonus as well - no OSS squeal from the internal mic echo! I will try to build the gstreamer plugins again - I've never succeeded with SFE. http://gdamore.blogspot.com/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/files/ On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: > > Jerry: > > Almost all gnome multimedia applications, such as totem/rhythmbox are >> using gstreamer framework. >> OSS has one plugin for gstreamer, but it is not bundled with opensolaris . >> if you really want to try it out, you can build gstreamer by yourself. >> > > This shouldn't affect the problem that Herschel reported since the > SADA shim should work even if the OSS GStreamer plugin isn't built. > > However, Jerry is right, if you want to take more full advantage of > OSS, then you can rebuild the SUNWgnome-media package so that the > OSS plugin is used instead of the SunAudio one. This will build > the OSSv3 plugins, which seem to work well with OSS on Solaris. > > Or you can build SFEgst-plugins-bad from SFE which will cause the > OSSv4 plugin to get built. It's still under development, and has > a few bugs, but it works with the OSSv4 interfaces. > > The main advantage to building the OSS plugin is that you get > better control over the mixer when you run programs like > gnome-volume-control. > > BTW: OSS pkg does not work well in many solaris machines. >> > > There were some serious issues with older versions of OSS. However > I think they got most of the bugs worked out with the latest release > of OSS available from the 4Front website. Most of the issues that > we have seen in the past seemed to relate to using it on Sparc. > > Brian > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080902/e9ff6b90/attachment.html>
