Bug 59962

Summary:	media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r2 compiled with +alsa -oss b0rks /usr/bin/play
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) <karltk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-10 07:00:12 UTC

Compiling media-sound/sox-12.17.4-r2 with the use flags +alsa -encode +mad
+oggvorbis -oss, results in a sox installation that cannot play audio to the
sound device.

The /usr/bin/play script is hardcoded to use the ossdsp output for /dev/dsp
when on Linux and FreeBSD, resulting in:

sox: Unknown output file format for '/dev/dsp': File type 'ossdsp' is not known

I suggest we either issue a warning at installation time (say in 
pkg_postinst) telling the user that sox cannot work properly on alsa-only
systems, or the problem itself should be remedied.

Apparently, there's no alsadsp output compiled in either, and I have been
unable to figure out exactly how this can fixed, yet.

Comment 1 Przemyslaw Maciag (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-04 14:52:17 UTC

Same here of course ;-)

I think the best (at least for now) will be 'ewarn'ing a user after installation comlites...

Regards,
Przemek

Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-09 14:24:51 UTC

can you please try 12.17.5

Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-11 10:01:03 UTC

marking this as DUP because the other bug has useful comments from an ALSA dev about the known situation.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63531 ***