application <app.name> uses obsolete OSS audio interface

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:52:04 +0900 (JST), Tapas Ranjan
<sarangi at bpost.kek.jp> wrote:
> Hi :
> 
>         "kernel: application <app.name> uses obsolete OSS audio interface"
> 
>         I am getting this mesg in /var/log/messages as well in dmesg. This
> <app. name> is xmms, mozilla-bin. It followed by another error message in
> /var/log/messages i.e.
> 
>   "modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for sound_slot_1"
> 
>         I am using Fedora 2 with a updated kernel by yum. There was no
> problem updating the kernel or after updates. Via google I found
> that, there is some problem of compatibility sourced by the kernel.
> There is no proper solution I found to get rid of this error mesgs. Any
> help from experts will be appreciated.
> 
>         Thanks
>         ---Tapas
> 

Tapas,
   Do you have Alsa's OSS emulation installed? Please provide the
output of lsmod. Also possibly the contents of modprobe.conf.

- Mark