OSS4 Installation
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:18 pmBuilding From Mercurial
First Blacklist the Alsa Modules
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base
Next Uninstall Pulseaudio
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sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio
Next Grab Some Required Packages For The Build
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sudo apt-get install -y binutils libgtk2.0-0 sed gcc libc6
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` gawk libtool libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libesd0 libsdl1.2debian-oss
sudo apt-get install -y mercurial
grab the source and put it into the opt directory
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cd /opt
sudo hg clone http://opensound.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/opensound
Nows It Is Time To Build
Make The Build Directory
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cd ~/
sudo rm -rf oss42build
mkdir oss42build
cd oss42build/
Build And Install
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NO_WARNING_CHECKS=yes /opt/opensound/configure --enable-libsalsa=NO
make
sudo make deb
sudo dpkg -i oss*.deb
If All Went Well OSS4 is Now Installed
Once Rebooted run this
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osstest
Now To Make a Volume Applet
First Download The Attached File
volwheel-0.2.7-fixed.tar.gz- (38.33 KiB) Downloaded 274 times
Extract it Anywhere That You Please
Go to Your Terminal And Change Directory into the one you just extracted
In my Case
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cd Downloads
cd volwheel-0.2.7-fixed
next run the install command as root
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sudo su
./install.pl
if all went well the volume applet will be installed if not you may be needing these
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sudo apt-get install -y libgtk2-trayicon-perl libgtk2-perl
Ok now that the Volume Control is Installed load the StartUp Applications in
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Applications > Other > Startup Applications
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Click Add Give it a Name (Volume will do) then in command write "volwheel"
Ok now it is safe to reboot.
Once Rebooted you will notice the volume applet already loaded in the top panel.
Now time to Configure it
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Right-Click on it > Preferences >
Driver = OSS,
Default Channel = vmix0-outvol,
Default Mixer = OSSXMIX
One Last thing make Alsa Apps go through oss4
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gedit ~/.asoundrc
Insert
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pcm.!default
{
type oss
device /dev/dsp
}
mixer.!default
{
type oss
device /dev/dsp
}
now click save
Now you should be good to go, you can change the icon look in the preferences as well
Hope you enjoy using oss4!!
You May Need to Configure some apps to use oss4
http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php ... _for_OSSv4
Clementine Works Out of the box
If you are having problems with OSS4 or just want Alsa/Pulse back follow the rest of this guide to get it back
Unblacklist the Alsa Modules
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base
and choose ALSA
Remove OSS4
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sudo soundoff
sudo dpkg -r oss-linux
Reinstall Pulseaudio
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sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
Remove The Asoundrc File
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rm ~/.asoundrc
Reboot and it should be back to the way it was
