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[Solved] OSS 4

Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 08:56
by ashkenazi
I have blacklisted ALSA and installed OSS4 by following the tarball installation procedure:

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TAR package:
cd /
tar –jxvf oss-linux-v4.2-2010-amd64.tar.bz2
sh /usr/lib/oss/build/install.sh
and putting

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/usr/sbin/soundon
into

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/etc/rc.d/rc.local
It works when installed, but it stops working upon rebooting.

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osstest
shows "input / output error". If I reinstall OSS4 once again, it works until next reboot.
If I put the installation code into

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/etc/rc.d/rc.local
, along with

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/usr/sbin/soundon
it survives reboots, but sometimes it breaks as well. What is to blame?

Re: OSS 4

Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 10:42
by beny
hi are you sure that you have the save changes in your boot line ,seem when you reboot source code not work because not saved,ps: you have the oss slackware package in slackbuild repo via usm you can build it so you can do a package xzm ready to use

Re: OSS 4

Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 10:57
by ashkenazi
It's a Frugal HDD ext4 Porteus install, so it saves changes by default (I installed some packages using slapt-get and they work after reboots). I know about the oss package from slackware repos, but using it yields the same results.

Re: OSS 4

Posted: 27 Jan 2015, 21:07
by fanthom
might be that rc.local runs too early in the booting process - please start it at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.services.

Re: OSS 4

Posted: 28 Jan 2015, 11:27
by ashkenazi
It works once in a few tries (a few reboots) if I start

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soundon
manually as root from the terminal (not using rc.d at all). I begin to suspect that it's kernel version related. Perhaps downgrading the Porteus kernel from the one used in 3.1 release (3.17) to the one used in 3.0 release (3.14) might fix the issue. I'll see what I can do.

Re: OSS 4

Posted: 28 Jan 2015, 22:47
by ashkenazi
Turns out to be a hardware issue. Beware of ATI HDMI audio, or NVIDIA's equivalent. Since the motherboard has an integrated graphics card, I pulled out the R5 M230 and voila! Sound works now.