F11: OSS and pulseaudio conflict

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Dec 10 07:21:38 UTC 2008


Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 00:29 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>>> There's no sound mixing (through ALSA or PulseAudio) when OSS emulation
>>>> is used in ALSA. Kill it (and file a bug against the app).
>>> Filed:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472741
>>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/308445/
>> CUSE: Character devices in user space
>>
>> The first cuse driver is an OSS proxy to pulseaudio, that provides 
>> /dev/dsp, /dev/adsp and /dev/mixer.  The article describes it as likely 
>> to be merged in the upstream 2.6.29 kernel.  Let us help this become 
>> stable so we can count on it for F11.
>>
>> Assuming cuse OSS proxy is ready for F11, and it works reasonably well 
>> as a complete replacement for ALSA's OSS compat layer, we would do the 
>> following:
> <snip>
> 
> I don't see this happening for F11, so I'll comment on the fallback
> strategy.

Seriously?  That article says it is likely to happen for 2.6.29.  Is 
this unlikely?

In any case CUSE would undoubtedly be useful to have in the next RHEL. 
Just imagine how much more flexible RHEL5 would have been to customers 
if we had fuse back then.

Warren




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