From: White Spirit on
On 16/04/2010 01:44, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> I hope this is on topic here.

> I seem not to be able to run sidplay2 on Linux with ALSA. It uses OSS,
> and so I cannot play sids and have other sounds. I couldn't find an
> option to tell sidplay2 to use ALSA. I use an Ubuntu package. I saw you
> might be able to compile it yourself with ALSA, but I want to avoid this.

> What I'm doing is to append "aoss" on the command line, so it would play.

Do you have OSS compatibility installed?
From: Andreas Kohlbach on
White Spirit wrote on 20. April 2010:
>
> On 16/04/2010 01:44, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>
>> I hope this is on topic here.
>
>> I seem not to be able to run sidplay2 on Linux with ALSA. It uses OSS,
>> and so I cannot play sids and have other sounds. I couldn't find an
>> option to tell sidplay2 to use ALSA. I use an Ubuntu package. I saw you
>> might be able to compile it yourself with ALSA, but I want to avoid this.
>
>> What I'm doing is to append "aoss" on the command line, so it would play.
>
> Do you have OSS compatibility installed?

Well it plays if I append "aoss". So I guess so.
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Andreas
My Commodore 64 classic game music page at
http://www.ankman.de/commodore-64-sid-music/
From: White Spirit on
On 21/04/2010 02:46, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> White Spirit wrote on 20. April 2010:

>> On 16/04/2010 01:44, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

>>> I hope this is on topic here.

>>> I seem not to be able to run sidplay2 on Linux with ALSA. It uses OSS,
>>> and so I cannot play sids and have other sounds. I couldn't find an
>>> option to tell sidplay2 to use ALSA. I use an Ubuntu package. I saw you
>>> might be able to compile it yourself with ALSA, but I want to avoid this.

>>> What I'm doing is to append "aoss" on the command line, so it would play.

>> Do you have OSS compatibility installed?

> Well it plays if I append "aoss". So I guess so.

I'd contact the package maintainer and ask him specifically. Otherwise,
compiling should be hassle-free if you make sure you have the correct
dependencies.