'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/07/09 15:41 did gyre and gimble: > Heya! > > Just a little heads-up for distro packagers: please consider disabling > OSS in your distributions! > > We did so in Fedora 11 and it went very well, we only got two bug > reports or so and the respective programs have now been fixed. Fedora > 11 installations are now OSS-free by default, which I think is a big > step ahead to drain the linux audio swamp. > > I'd really like to see that other distros follow suit. The recommended > way to disable OSS is to make sure the snd-pcm-oss/snd-seq-oss modules > aren't loaded anymore by default when when snd-pcm is. This can be > done by commenting a line in /etc/modprobe.d/ somewhere. Doing this > allows folks to easily reenable OSS again but has the advantrage that > legacy apps cannot fuck up device access for PA anymore. What are your thoughts on ossp progress? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tj/ossp/ It seesm 2.6.31 will have the necessary stuff in it to support this (CUSE support is in 2.6.31rc series), which should mean much friendlier OSS app support with PA. I know you were a bit sceptical in the past, but has this changed? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
