Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> How will this affect people who don't wish to run PulseAudio? Â Can they >> still have their ALSA OSS emulation, or will they need to run PulseAudio >> for applications which still use OSS? > > Most desktop users would want to blacklist the OSS emulation - it > doesn't support software mixing. *SNIP* > An even better alternative is osspd, which uses CUSE to provide the > devices. It can redirect to either ALSA or PulseAudio. > > If disabling the OSS emulation would be made the default, and the > modules only loaded if added to MODULES in rc.conf, I would welcome > that. > > Disabling OSS preclaim for everyone by altering the kernel config > should be safe to do. It's even in the feature removal schedule: Thanks for the answer. All of this sounds good, and I like your plan. -- Chris
