[haiku-development] Re: Sound of Silence...

On Wed, 27 May 2009 15:33:55 -0700, pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx said:

> If I reboot to the earlier partition -- release 29462 -- I get audio
> again... usually!  I think I'm actually encountering two problems.
> It looks as if there's a buffer-flow problem or something in this
> release that often prevents it playing when first booted.  If I try
> a little later it usually works, but is very sensitive to other 
> activity
> such as mouse-movement.

This is a know OSS bug. AFAIK, there is no workaround for it other than 
waiting a bit before playing any files. In any case, it also tends to 
stop playing sound after some hours too.
 
> However, it's something different in the later release -- 30629.
> There seems to be no sound driver at all.  In the 29462 Media 
> Preferences,
> audio I/O is connected to "Crystal CS4280", but in the later one my 
> only
> choice is "<none>".

OSS is not installed.
 
> Digging around a bit, it appears that this device is handled by OSS
> but all the OSS stuff seems to be in "/boot/home/config/..." in the
> old system, and is not present at all in the current one.  I've tried
> linking across to what I could find, but it made no difference, so 
> I'd
> guess I'm missing something -- like a proper install.

You are missing the OSS optional package.
 
-Bruno

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