[pulseaudio-discuss] Does pulseaudio require alsa/oss

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and John Frankish at 11/05/10 14:45 did gyre and gimble:
> 
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>> 'Twas brillig, and John Frankish at 11/05/10 08:55 did gyre and gimble:
>>> Yes, I checked the distro (www.tinycorelinux.com) kernel config and
>> things seem to be setup properly.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do to attempt to debug this?
>>
>> I'd suggest posting the kernel config somewhere so people can double
>> check.
>>
>> The problem is going to be basically one of:
>>  1) kernel not compiled with the right options
>>  2) Too old a udev
>>
>> I'm not sure about debugging, but stepping through the code in
>> module-udev-detect and adding in extra debug logs to see precisely
>> where
>> it fails would be a reasonable approach to nailing it down.
>>
>> Do other users on this distro have the same problem or are you the only
>> one to report this problem?
>>
>> Col
>>
> Kernel config attached.
> 
> I'm using udev-151, which I think should be recent enough
> 
> I'm the one trying (and succeeding if we don't count udev) to make it work on the distro at the moment...

Nothing immediately jumps out at me there, but I'm not an expert in the
kernel side of things.

Personally I'd ditch all of these:

CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812 is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_AEDSP16 is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_KAHLUA=m

Doubt they would get in the way but they are all legacy OSS and we're
very much trying to get everyone to stop using the old stuff.


Col


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