alsa-oss

[Fibonacci Prower]

2006/9/27, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl>:
>
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 18:38 -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there any reason why the alsa-oss package isn't part of Fedora? It
> > has been said before (most notably in the Fedora forum) that OSS
> > emulation modules are enabled by default, and therefore alsa-oss is
> > obsolete, but aoss provides extra functionalities impossible to
> > achieve with the kernel modules, such as software mixing of output,
> > which are very useful for proprietary apps (Flash, Skype, etc) that
> > use only OSS.
> >
> > http://alsa.opensrc.org/aoss
> > "Usage of aoss is preferred over kernel-level OSS emulation because if
> > you need use the PCM plugin layer, enabling the use of the Dmix Plugin
> > or asym."
>
>
> to be honest, aoss sucks too. In fact any emulation solution so far is
> pretty crappy in one way or the other ;-(


But it's the best we've got so far.

It has been how long since ALSA took over? It's time to phase OSS out
> entirely....


What about Flash & Skype? Should we wait for new versions using ALSA to be
released in 208, and stop using them meanwhile?

(and skype is afaik even from after the alsa release so they have for
> sure no excuse at all!)


But they still use OSS - try to convince them to switch to ALSA.

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