What happened to OSS support?

exodus454 · Post by **exodus454** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:11 pm

I had wine working beautifully with OSS4 under LMDE, and I just switched to fedora which uses WINE 1.3.33 (a much more current version than what's in debian repos) and there's no OSS support?!

Every time I try to force OSS it says "no driver" under audio. I don't want pulseaudio or ALSA on my system and spotify was working beautifully with OSS4 before. I tried looking for alsa => OSS wrappers but it looks like they only go the other way around.

OSS is NOT obsolete.. just the free version that's in everyone's repos.

Is there any way around this, or is this a bug?

Mateusz Stachowski · Post by **Mateusz Stachowski** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:53 pm

I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 using Open Sound System (OSS-v4.2-build2005) and it's working perfectly fine with the version you have and also newer ones. In fact OSS and ALSA are the only supported backends. As of Wine 1.3.28, Wine should select the correct backend for you.

Maybe you have some old registry settings that are incompatible with new sound implementation. Then you should delete them as described in http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound

exodus454 · Post by **exodus454** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:37 pm

I checked all the registry settings, that's the way I've been trying to force OSS.

With ALSA installed, it works fine, autodetects and plays without issue. With OSS it tries to defulat to ALSA and specifying "OSS" in the registry does nothing.

I'm really thinking I'm going back to LMDE.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:54 pm

exodus454 wrote:I had wine working beautifully with OSS4 under LMDE, and I just switched to fedora which uses WINE 1.3.33 (a much more current version than what's in debian repos) and there's no OSS support?!

It's possible the Fedora packages were compiled without OSS support. Try building Wine yourself.

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:37 pm

On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 12:37 -0600, exodus454 wrote:

I checked all the registry settings, that's the way I've been trying to force OSS.

With ALSA installed, it works fine, autodetects and plays without issue. With OSS it tries to defulat to ALSA and specifying "OSS" in the registry does nothing.

I'm really thinking I'm going back to LMDE.

I think you'll find that OSS is not included in the Fedora distro, but
check for your self: try running "yum list oss" and/or "yum list OSS".
You can check for packages as any user, but must be root or use "sudo"
to install, update or erase a package.

Martin

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:58 pm

exodus454 wrote:I checked all the registry settings, that's the way I've been trying to force OSS.

With ALSA installed, it works fine, autodetects and plays without issue. With OSS it tries to defulat to ALSA and specifying "OSS" in the registry does nothing.

I'm really thinking I'm going back to LMDE.

You need to install the following package: wine-oss