Re: No sound for really old program
On 08/14/2013 04:53 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
Now I do remember years back that there was some sort of wrapper I
could execute
old programs in that would allow them to work with the latest (at the time)
sound architecture. But I don't remember what it was called. And in any case, it
probably wouldn't work now either.
If it's expecting the OSS sound drivers (which'd be about right for RH6)
then you can use the padsp wrapper:
$ padsp $old-program
This will fake up the traditional OSS interface for the process run and
works with most of the ancient things I've tried it with - the main
caveat is that it uses LD_PRELOAD tricks so it won't work with
suid/static binaries.
The man page has more details and options for controlling the interface.
Regards,
Bryn.