On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 23:42 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:11 -0500, Warren Togami wrote: > > I ran into an application yesterday that seemed to make pulseaudio > > daemon fail. After a lot of digging, someone else realized that this > > application was actually using OSS output. OSS currently grabs /dev/dsp > > (provided by snd-pcm-oss), making it appear that pulseaudio has "failed". > > > > OSS applications are so rare these days, I did not even consider that it > > was using OSS. This is likely to be a rare but repetitive source of > > confusion in the future. > > Just remove OSS support from the kernel. ALSA has been the default since > the 2.6.0 kernel (that's 5 years ago), and even apps that use OSS > emulation through ALSA will block any other use of the sound card > (whether PulseAudio is present or not). > > There's no sound mixing (through ALSA or PulseAudio) when OSS emulation > is used in ALSA. Kill it (and file a bug against the app). Filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472741 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
