I need to use old oss modules

[yossarianuk]

Hi.

For some games I need the old oss modules.

snd-seq-oss
snd-pcm-oss

However the Ubuntu kernel is compiled without those modules.

In the past I have just downloaded the ubuntu kernel source and recompiled it including those modules.

Is there another way to get them so I can avoid the hassle of having to do this (its annoying due to the frequency of kernel updates)?

Cheers

[vinnywright]

you could try the "alsa-oss" or "oss-compat" packages one or the other.........the alsa-oss will try to put a wrapper around the program that requires the oss , the oss-compat enables the alsa compatibility modules.

VINNY

[yossarianuk]

Thanks for the reponse vinny.

However the alsa-oss and compat packages do not actually contain the needed modules.

The only way I can get certain games to work so far is by recompiling the kernel with those modules - but I really can;t be bothered to keep compiling the kernel after each update.

if I try alsa-oss - aoss it doesn;t work - I have a intel HDA card btw..

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ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
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I have tried both the alsa-oss and alsa-oss :i386 packages


Its actually preventing me using (k)ubuntu full time, on Arch the modules are compiled in (but not loaded unless specified) which is far easier

Anyone know how I can use oss modules 'without' compiling a new kernel ?

[Quintasan]

did you try using padsp to run that application?

[yossarianuk]

did you try using padsp to run that application?

Thanks for the advise however this also doesn't work........

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padsp ./paintball2

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
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Just to confirm I have the following packages installed

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dpkg -l |egrep "pulse|alsa|oss-"c
ii alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu3.1 all ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-oss 1.0.25-1 i386 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
ii alsa-utils 1.0.25-3ubuntu2 amd64 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
ii bluez-alsa:amd64 4.101-0ubuntu6 amd64 Bluetooth ALSA support
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa:amd64 0.10.36-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64 0.10.31-3ubuntu1.2 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii libcanberra-pulse:amd64 0.29-0ubuntu2 amd64 PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 i386 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii libpulse0:amd64 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libpulse0:i386 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libpulsedsp:amd64 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii libpulsedsp:i386 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 i386 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii oss-compat 2ubuntu1 amd64 Open Sound System (OSS) compatibility package
ii pulseaudio 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
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If I recompile the ubuntu kernel with

CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS:
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS:

I get the old oss modules - the pulseaudio / alsa oss emulation doesn't appear to work without them...

lspci shows the device as

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)