On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
King InuYasha wrote:The "OSS" in current Fedora kernels is not OSS at all, it's ALSA's OSS
> Because, a.out format is just a binary format, which is relatively easy to
> replace, while OSS is something that deals with hardware. In some cases
> (rare as it is), ALSA just doesn't work while OSS _does_ work. A case in
> point, one of my desktops has a VIA board, which breaks horribly in ALSA
> with its integrated audio. However, OSS works fine with it. PulseAudio can
> output to OSS as well as ALSA, right? In cases like this, I usually
> default PulseAudio to the OSS sink instead of the ALSA one. ALSA isn't the
> end all sink solution. If we want to disable it, we need to be certain
> that everything is on par with OSS or better. ALSA just isn't there yet,
> sorry people....
emulation. So I don't see how it would work any better than ALSA itself
does.
Kevin Kofler
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Well, until just now, I wasn't even aware that OSS was in Fedora, and even then, I was aware that OSS that was in Linux was quite old, so I usually compiled in OSS from 4Front, which has for quite awhile been available under GPL. So, its probably good that I wasn't since this is just ALSA emulation of OSS that we're talking about here. Fine, get rid of it if you can make sure to have a point to redirect to PulseAudio or something.
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