On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote: > These are only compatibility layers that really shouldn't be needed > nowadays... Well, many programs still use them by default. For example, some have discussed aumix as a mixer program. It uses /dev/mixer, which is why it doesn't show all controls. Most programs, including Mplayer still default to OSS-compatible operation unless overridden. So, until this changes, I consider the OSS emulation mandatory. There is the aoss command, which tries to make a program that would normally use OSS use ALSA instead, but it doesn't always work.
