Re: [RFC] disable OSS sound support

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

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.

        Kevin Kofler