Just came across this show stopper in the 5.0.1 release. The kernel has ALSA support and there is an installation option to install all ALSA modules. This is great as I can now drive an 8 channel USB audio device without problems.
The problem comes when I try and use ogg123. Sadly support for ALSA has been omitted when it was compiled. It is only configured for OSS output. Maybe this is something that can be fixed in a future release.
'alsaplayer' does not help either. It generally (all versions on all distros) cannot play multichannel OGG files.
My workaround was to copy 'oggdec' and 'aplay' from my (k)ubuntu 7.04 and use: oggdec -o - file.ogg | aplay
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Just came across this show stopper in the 5.0.1 release. The kernel has ALSA support and there is an installation option to install all ALSA modules. This is great as I can now drive an 8 channel USB audio device without problems.
The problem comes when I try and use ogg123. Sadly support for ALSA has been omitted when it was compiled. It is only configured for OSS output. Maybe this is something that can be fixed in a future release.
'alsaplayer' does not help either. It generally (all versions on all distros) cannot play multichannel OGG files.
My workaround was to copy 'oggdec' and 'aplay' from my (k)ubuntu 7.04 and use:
oggdec -o - file.ogg | aplayHope this helps.