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osspd doesn't work with 13.10

Asked by Tong Sun

Hi,

As reported in http://askubuntu.com/questions/361711/osspd-aoss-padsp-dont-work-with-13-10
I found that osspd doesn't work with Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy.

I'm sure it is Ubuntu 13.10's problem because I also have Ubuntu 13.04 on this very same machine, and it works fine. Here is my Ubuntu 13.04's info:

$ uname -rsm
Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.8.0-19-generic (buildd@allspice) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1) ) #30-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 1 16:35:23 UTC 2013

And here is my Ubuntu 13.10's info:

$ uname -rsm
Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.11.0-13-generic (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.8.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 07:38:26 UTC 2013

Here is how I tested:

$ echo 0z0z > /dev/dsp
bash: /dev/dsp: Input/output error

Restarting osspd won't work:

$ sudo service osspd restart
 * Restarting OSS Proxy Daemon osspd [ OK ]

Rebooting my machine won't work either.

My *PaulsAudio works fine*.

Didn't test padsp or aoss because I'm not sure if they work with my Ubuntu 13.04, and it is already reported not working.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug

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Andry (ap1213) said : 		#2

Hi!
I have same problem.

But I spent some time researching the problem and found as many as three solutions for the osspd package.

1. Using wrapper to execute "eval `pax11publish -i`" before running ossp-padsp (slave process of osspd)

2. Adding the predefined unix socket to user's pulse server (i.e. "load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 socket=/tmp/pulse-socket") and using "default-server = unix:/tmp/pulse-socket" in "/root/.config/pulse/client.conf". (in my opinion this is the best solution now).

3. Reworking source code of ossp-padsp.c to call function pa_context_connect() with server's name "unix:/run/user/<USERID>/pulse/native" (I can get USERID easily). Or using combination with predefined unix socket (as above) and applying it as pulse server name in pa_context_connect().

I hope the developers of pulseaudio or Xubuntu will solve this problem in the next versions.
The sourse is https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2019-November/031495.html.

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Andry (ap1213) said : 		#3

PS :)
The source for the 2nd solution is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples
see "Allowing multiple users to use PulseAudio at the same time".

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