Hans Meine wrote: > Hi, > > I have just updated my Freevo machine - new Gentoo installation, new kernel > (2.6.28) and so on. As usual and expected, I have a lot of small problems to > resolve. > > One of them is that the mixer in Freevo is not working - actually, I get no > sound even after adjusting mixer levels using alsamixer, but let me get to > the point: > > "freevo plugins -l|grep mixer" gives: > alsamixer (active) Mixer for ALSA, requires pyalsaaudio... > alsamixer2 Another mixer for ALSA. This plugin... > mixer Mixer for Freevo > ossmixer The OSS mixer interface for Freevo > sixmixer > > I see room for improvement: > 1) "mixer" seems to be an OSS mixer, too? (At least I thought that was the > reason it does not find /dev/mixer.) Then what's the difference to ossmixer? > BTW, here are their descriptions: > mixer: "Mixer for Freevo" > ossmixer: "The OSS mixer interface for Freevo"
You need the module snd_mixer_oss loaded for the /dev/mixer device. There is very little difference between mixer and ossmixer, mainly using system calls and aumix. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
