[RFC] disable OSS sound support

[King InuYasha]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:

> King InuYasha wrote:
> > 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....
>
> The "OSS" in current Fedora kernels is not OSS at all, it's ALSA's OSS
> 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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