On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Warren Togami wrote: > > 1) Keep the OSS kernel modules. > > 2) alsa-plugins-pulseaudio ships /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-oss-sound, > > thereby preventing loading of these kernel modules and interfering with > > pulseaudio daemon. > > 3) If the user wants to use an OSS sound application they can use padsp > > manually. > > 4) Native OSS comes back if the user uninstalls alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, > > which also makes it so nothing uses pulseaudio for sound output. > > The problem with that is that they will continue saying "PulseAudio broke my > apps". If we just remove OSS sound support entirely, they won't have a > reason to blame PulseAudio anymore. I love that logic. And by love, I mean I really don't. PulseAudio is great, but there is a use case for OSS without PA in the loop still. And I fail to see why breaking those apps is a win - if you're that worried, pop up a notification to alert the user that something else has grabbed the audio device away. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
