asterisk users - Feb 2018 - chan_oss.c: Unable to register channel type 'OSS'

Hi list!

Currently I use Asterisk 1.8.30.0 on an OpenWRT-Switch.
Now I want to change to Asterisk 13.14.1 on a Banana PI (with  
Armbian/Debian 9).
Well, I copied the configuration and changed what needed, so  
basically, it works, at least with my tests.

But when Asterisk will be started, in the message log I get this error:

[Feb 15 08:40:15] ERROR[3971] chan_oss.c: Unable to register channel  
type 'OSS'

Unfortunately I cannot find WHY Asterisk was unable to register a  
channel type "OSS".
And then: do I need this? On the old Asterisk I didn't had that...

Thanks a lot for your help!
Luca Bertoncello
(lucabert at lucabert.de)

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 07:45:00AM +0000, Luca Bertoncello
wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> Currently I use Asterisk 1.8.30.0 on an OpenWRT-Switch.
> Now I want to change to Asterisk 13.14.1 on a Banana PI (with
Armbian/Debian
> 9).
> Well, I copied the configuration and changed what needed, so basically, it
> works, at least with my tests.
Off-topic: any reason you don't use chan_alsa?
> 
> But when Asterisk will be started, in the message log I get this error:
> 
> [Feb 15 08:40:15] ERROR[3971] chan_oss.c: Unable to register channel type
> 'OSS'
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot find WHY Asterisk was unable to register a channel
> type "OSS".
> And then: do I need this? On the old Asterisk I didn't had that...
Huh? chan_oss registers the channel type 'Console' .

I just tried it on a rpi with a somewhat similar deb, and chan_oss had
no problem loading and registering channel type Console.

I'm not aware of a patch to do so in Debian asterisk package and I don't
suppose Armbian maintain their own Asterisk package.

Are you sure you quote the error message right?

Maybe the error message is:

  Unable to register channel type 'Console'

which may be because either chan_alsa or chan_console was already loaded?

Of those three:

* I suppose chan_alsa should work better than chan_oss
* chan_console has nice support of multiple devices, but is completely
  broken in your specific version[1]

[1] https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27426 , and thanks
Sean Bright

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Zitat von Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>:

Hi,
> Off-topic: any reason you don't use chan_alsa?
This was the "Armbian installation", I didn't configured it
extra...
> Are you sure you quote the error message right?
Copy+Paste... ;)

But I searched a little bit and I really don't think, I need this module...
As I undestand, I just need it, if I want to call/answer call using  
the console, and I really don't need this...

Or I understood wrong?

Regards
Luca Bertoncello
(lucabert at lucabert.de)