Re: Forcing Alsa only in Ubuntu (7.10)?

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This is normal.  The alsa-oss package is a wrapper for non-alsa applications.  The snd-seq-oss and snd-pcm_oss are drivers that help translate OSS calls to ALSA at the kernel level, whereas the alsa-oss package contains a library that converts OSS system calls to alsa system calls.  The driver version is better for applications that need direct hardware control, the alsa-oss libraries are better for sharing the sound codec between multiple applications.

Tobin


On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:24 -0400, Davd Topper wrote:
I've just apt-got a few alsa packages and out of habit installed the
alsa-oss package.  I've since removed that package and reinstalled.  But
lsmod still shows:

snd                    54660  23
snd_atiixp_modem,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device


Does this mean that the package manager did not remove the alsa-oss
package?  Or is this normal behavior for the snd / alsa module under Ubuntu?

I'm asking because I want to make sure my apps interface via ALSA calls
at not OSS ones for the time being.  IE., I want to see errors if I make
any kind of an OSS call.

Thanks,

DT

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