Re: ALSA vs. OSS

[Travis Morgan <lkml@bigfiber.net>]

For what it's worth, I figured out the below problem. I was able to set
XMMS' ALSA output to Wave instead of PCM and can now adjust the volume
as I could with OSS. Also, for gkrellm, the digital out volume is now
PCM2 rather than just PCM.

Now I can adjust my XMMS volume with my Playstation controller again! :)
The USB converter and a USB extension were two of the best purchases
I've made for my system.

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 6666:0667 Prototype product Vendor ID Smart Joy
PSX, PS-PC Smart JoyPad

Linux castle 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 #1 Fri Jan 23 23:37:56 MST 2004 i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Regards,
Travis M

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 11:21, Travis Morgan wrote:
> So far I sort of tend to agree with you on OSS being better.
> 
> I have a soundblaster Live Value card. I can no longer control the
> output level through my digital out. With OSS my PCM volume used to
> affect both the headphone jack and the digital out. With ALSA it affects
> only the headphone jack.
> 
> I have loaded up alsamixer and played with every level in there and it
> doesn't seem possible to adjust the level anymore unless I adjust the
> wave volume. As a result I've been unable to get xmms or gkrellm to
> adjust the volume coming out of my stereo.
> 
> Now I like the idea of seperate volume controls, but this doesn't do
> that.
> 
> Regards,
> Travis M