[RFC] disable OSS sound support

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Feb 18 03:37:22 UTC 2009


King InuYasha wrote:
> Because, a.out format is just a binary format, which is relatively easy to
> replace, while OSS is something that deals with hardware. In some cases
> (rare as it is), ALSA just doesn't work while OSS _does_ work. A case in
> point, one of my desktops has a VIA board, which breaks horribly in ALSA
> with its integrated audio. However, OSS works fine with it. PulseAudio can
> output to OSS as well as ALSA, right? In cases like this, I usually
> default PulseAudio to the OSS sink instead of the ALSA one. ALSA isn't the
> end all sink solution. If we want to disable it, we need to be certain
> that everything is on par with OSS or better. ALSA just isn't there yet,
> sorry people....

The "OSS" in current Fedora kernels is not OSS at all, it's ALSA's OSS
emulation. So I don't see how it would work any better than ALSA itself
does.

        Kevin Kofler




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