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willxtreme

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From: Longueuil, Quebec, Canada

Registered: 2010-10-06

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Replace OSS w/ ALSA guide

Here's a quick guide on how to replace oss with alsa that will be officially back in AB 2011.10 (sorry for the inconvenience to some users)
1) Run in terminal "sudo pacman -R oss"
2) Edit /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf & remove the line "blacklist soundcore"
3) run "sudo pacman -S alsa-firmware alsa-utils alsa-oss"
4) Edit /etc/rc.conf and change @oss for @alsa
5) Run in terminal "sudo mkinitcpio -p linux"
6) packer -S volumeicon & go in Openbox Config>Edit autostart to replace "ossxmix -b &" by "volumeicon &"
(or if you want to use ADesk Bar's volume plugin (made for ALSA), "packer -S python-pyalsaaudio")
7) Reboot and play something

Edit Pablokal: somebody experienced that  step 5 wasn't  sufficient and had to do:
sudo pacman -S linux
See : http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4314#p4314

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