[RFC] disable OSS sound support

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Feb 16 10:36:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le Lun 16 février 2009 10:49, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> 
> > Which apps? And please don't tell me "internal apps that I've never
> > seen
> > actually running and that nobody told me about".
> >
> > OSS is dead on Linux, let's get rid of it, and see who actually cares.
> > My guess is close to absolutely no one.
> 
> OTOH as long as PA has a longlist of hardware it can't drive, Alsa
> without PA is necessary.

We're talking about the OSS support in ALSA. Whether PulseAudio is used
or not is irrelevant. The kernel OSS support will also break sound
mixing when ALSA only is used.

> Please bring gnome-mixer back :p
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Mailhot
> 




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