Is OSS emulation going?

Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Wed Aug 11 20:12:41 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:59 -0400, Robert Locke wrote:
> I finally upgraded to the latest FC2 kernel, 2.6.7-1.494.2.2, and have
> noticed a couple of messages that are new:
> 
> Aug 10 19:05:12 rltp40f2 kernel: application vmware-vmx uses obsolete
> OSS audio interface
> Aug 11 12:38:30 rltp40f2 kernel: application mozilla-bin uses obsolete
> OSS audio interface
> 
> Did I lose something in this upgrade?
> 
> FWIW, the VMWare is 4.5.2 build 8848 and the mozilla is the latest one
> from FC2 updates 1.7.2-0.2.0.
> 
> My modprobe.conf is as follows:
> 
> > alias net-pf-10 off
> > alias eth0 e1000
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> > install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> > alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> > alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
> > alias ath0 ath_pci
> 

Try loading the alsa OSS modules:

snd-mixer-oss
snd-seq-oss
snd-pcm-oss

You can set these up to auto-load by aliasing "/dev/sound" in /etc/
modprobe.conf (and other variations like "sound-slot-0", I'm sure).


> Checked bugzilla but my eyes couldn't find anything....
> 
> The VMWare list is saying that RedHat is looking to force everyone to
> use ALSA implying that things are likely to get worse before they get
> better....
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
> 
> --Rob
> 
> 
> 





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