Bug#364730: [Pkg-alsa-devel] [kapil@imsc.res.in: Bug only with aoss]

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 the mental interface of
Johannes Rohr told:

> Elimar Riesebieter schrieb:
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 the mental interface of
> > Kapil Hari Paranjape told:
> >   
> [...]
> >> The problem may be that alsa-oss redefines mmap. Perhaps it should be
> >> redefining mmap2.
> >>     
> >
> > Hmm, do you have a special version of mutt which annonces your mail
> > by a voice of choice? Any way, I can start
> >
> > $ aoss mutt
> >
> > with no problems.
> >   
> 
> Well, you can /start/ it, but as soon as mutt /does/ anything
> substantial, i.e. expunge a mailbox, copy a message etc., it will crash.
No!

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libaoss.so mutt

works perfect;)

> 
> > But I don't know. why I need that.....
> 
> Well, the point is that I had LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libaoss.so in my
> .bashrc for some time, in an attempt to make OSS applications "just
> work". Obviously this has a number of unwanted side effects.

It simulates the OSS devices. And i.e, mutt doesn't need /dev/mixer
to run correctly, though.

Elimar

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