oss_geode(7)

💖 oss_geode — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to oss_geode(7), straight out of the OSS Devices section of the manual (yes, section 7, we're fancy). this is the page about the National Semiconductor Geode audio driver and ngl it's short but it's iconic. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

oss_geode — the National Semiconductor Geode audio driver. that's it, that's the name, she's simple and she knows it 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, this is the Open Sound System driver for National Semiconductor Geode / CS5530 / CS5536 audio controllers. yes, all three, she's versatile like that 🦋

here's the vibe check on what a Geode device can actually do:

• 8/16 bit playback and record
• mono/stereo playback and recording
• sample rate from 8KHz to 48Khz

that's the whole résumé and honestly? she ate. 👑

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🫶 NOTES 🫶

okay so this is the part where we have a lil heart-to-heart, because some of the older Geode CPUs are not able to handle heavy computational loads. like, they're doing their best but they're tired 😭

if your audio streams use a lot of CPU, you can start getting garbled audio, because the OSS Sample Rate Convertor is CPU intensive. not her fault, she's just built different (specifically, built to work hard).

the fix? setting vmix0-src to OFF. that will let you play audio, but only at a fixed rate set via vmixctl — and that default is 48Khz.

💀 fr fr, this is the "I turned off the fancy thing and now it only does one speed" trade-off. worth knowing before you spiral.

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/oss4/conf/oss_geode.conf — the device configuration file. that's where the config lives, bestie, go say hi to it 🌈

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

4Front Technologies — the legends who wrote this. respect 💜

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and that's the whole page!! short, sweet, and fully slay 🧚

as always, this was brought to you by 4Front Technologies, and this lil doc is dated 11 February 2015. mwah, ily, go configure your Geode 💖💅🍓