[squeak-dev] Sound Options on Squeak Linux - a Question

Milan Zimmermann milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca
Fri Mar 7 00:11:44 UTC 2008


On 2008 March 6, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2008 4:13:17 am Milan Zimmermann wrote:
<snip>
> > Is there a way to "ask" for one of them to be used first. For example,
> > Linux can have either ALSA or OSS or both available, what is the process
> > of deciding which will be used when sound is to be played?
> >
> > Thanks Milan
>
> You pass a command line parameter -vm-sound-<driver>. The default
> is -vm-sound-ALSA. If you want to check which sound module a running squeak
> process uses, use the command:
>  $ grep vm-sound- /proc/$(pgrep -x squeak)/maps
>
> Subbu

Thanks Subbu. 

yes, adding " -vm sound=ALSA" (or OSS) as parameter forces the particular 
driver to be used, it seems default in Squeak 3.9-8 is ALSA but in earlier 
versions it may have been OSS.  And thanks for the tip searching running 
squeak, Milan




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