Home of HOWTO: Sound mixing in software with JACK and oss2jack

This is just a "quick and dirty homepage" for my HOWTO. I posted a HOWTO with this title to ubuntuformus.org. You can read it here:

[Dapper/Feisty] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208488

[Breezy] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=695990&postcount=6

or here (copy from above on my server):

[Dapper/Feisty] http://neogate.homelinux.org/howto-oss2jack/howto-dapper.html

[Breezy] http://neogate.homelinux.org/howto-oss2jack/howto-breezy.html

To use this HOWTO you'll need the following (Debian/Ubuntu package) repository:

deb http://neogate.homelinux.org/debian feisty sound

or

deb http://neogate.homelinux.org/debian dapper sound

or

deb http://neogate.homelinux.org/debian breezy sound

Patch for WINE

This (section) is at least true for version 0.24 of oss2jack. My repository for dapper contains version 0.25 and the author of oss2jack says something about mixer support in 0.25. So you might need this patch for the older oss2jack 0.24, only. I haven't tested 0.25 with WINE yet.

If you use WINE and want to have sound output, you'll need to patch WINE (get the sources, apply the patch and compile it). Otherwise WINE will fail, because oss2jack doesn't implement an OSS mixer device. You can get the patch here: oss-no-mixer.diff

NOTE 1: This patch is for WINE version 0.9.6 . It might fail on newer/older versions.

NOTE 2: As far as I know, direct sound output to JACK is broken in WINE. At least it didn't work for me (with WINE version 0.9.6).

NOTE 3: I got that patch from the WINE devel mailing list. Here is the corresponding thread.

joft - 20/04/2007