How to make Kmix work with OSSv4 in KDE 4.2.2 ?

[Helio Chissini de Castro]

On Terça-feira 14 Abril 2009, Kevin Zhao wrote:
> I use ossv4 instead of alsa because apparently OSS4 works much better than
> alsa in term of system resource consumption, sound quality as well as
> features.
>
> But kmix in this new release KDE 4.2.2 doesn't support ossv4, when you open
> kmix it's blank, with NO sliders. I have been googling about this for a
> while, and couldn't find any good solution. It seems it's a known problem
> since 2007, I am just wondering is there any easy to make kmix work with
> oss4?
>
> Thanks a lot, guys, KDE 4.2 is fantastic!

Well, no luck at this time fro OSS4.
Original code remounts from old OSS, and current kmix handles "per mixer 
driver" entries, so we have alsa post 0.9, sun os mixer, old oss at last.
We way behind to add support for things like pulse, windows ( don't have sure 
if it's possible), and OSS4, so we have a work to do.
There's a proposal in summer of code to revamp some of this handling code and 
touch pulse issues, and other irc genius ideas from solid guys, but not too 
much beyond that.

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Helio Chissini de Castro
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