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Bug 52386 - Problem with ALSA/udev and OSS emulation with duplex sound cards
Summary: Problem with ALSA/udev and OSS emulation with duplex sound cards
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-05-29 12:29 UTC by Simon Watson
Modified: 2004-06-08 10:06 UTC (History)
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Description Simon Watson 2004-05-29 12:29:47 UTC
This may not be a bug as such, but enabling native udev mode (i.e. disabling the tarball method) means that a lot of the DSP devices in /dev/sound are not created when the oss emulation module is loaded. For most users - this does not matter as only one DSP device will exist anyway.

For those with SB Live/Audigy cards, and any others that provide duplex mixing - it is exceedingly irritating. There need to be multiple devices to enable hardware mixing (as opposed to ESD/arts style mixing) to take place.

I do not know whether this can be worked around using rules or suchlike - the obvious thing to do is to enable the tarball again, but then - it should work without the tarball in my opinion. And enabling the tarball causes magical things like gnome-volume-manager not to work properly!
Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-04 15:12:19 UTC
Hm, this shouldn't happen.  What does /sys/class/sound/ show with these
drivers loaded?
Comment 2 Simon Watson 2004-06-08 10:06:13 UTC
Hmmm - it seems to have fixed itself!

If it happens again - i'll reopen the bug