Proposal: Rationalizing Fedora Audio

Ralf Ertzinger fedora-devel at camperquake.de
Mon Oct 18 15:01:07 UTC 2004


Hi.

Michael Wiktowy <mwiktowy at gmx.net> wrote:

> Your last point raises the question: *Should* legacy applications that 
> are using OSS directly and don't know about ALSA be able to multiplex 
> sound inputs/outputs together on a system that has ALSA?

IMVVVHO: yes, they ought to. ALSA does not support this, though.
There is an application called aoss (not delivered with fedora)
that reroutes calls to open legacy sound devices (/dev/dsp*) into
the ALSA core, where they can be mixed.

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