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
>
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