Re: Disable OSS sound by default in Fedora 11, compat-broken-oss-sound

[Michel Salim <michel sylvan gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com> wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472741#c12
> Here is an improved plan to disable OSS by default in Fedora 11.  This
> plan makes it possible to restore the old behavior with a single compat
> package.  This will prevent the pulseaudio/OSS conflict that currently
> causes weird behavior and mistaken bug reports filed against numerous
> other packages.
>
> This should also encourage us to fix the few remaining applications that
> output OSS by default.
>
Granted that this is hopefully a rare enough scenario, but what will
be the user experience of someone installing compat-broken-oss?

- would a restart be required, or would the %post of the package load
the required modules?

- since it replaces alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, are there
PulseAudio-aware applications that will fail over miserably if PA is
not running? They probably should fall back to ALSA but we probably
need a test plan in place.

Regards,

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