[ltp] Sound devices (alsa,dmix, and dev/dsp)

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:38:41 +0000


Martin Heimburger wrote:
> This may not work with more complex OSS-based applications, but I've had
> some success with the following method (e.g. gets realplayer to use
> ALSA/dmix rather than blocking the /dev/dsp device):
> 
> LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD:/usr/lib/libaoss.so" your_application
> 
> (requires the alsa-oss package - or whatever Mandriva likes to call it)
> 
> Hope that helps,

That seems to work quite well. 	Although the one place where it still 
fails is Qemu.

Richard