esound, removal removes 478 packages !

[stan]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:49 -0700, stan wrote:
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>> Will the new version of Fedora be using esound exclusively?
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> No, it will use PulseAudio.
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>   
>> What about 
>> if I want fine control of the hardware?  How is that done using esound?
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> It's not. You use ALSA for that.
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But when I try to do that, I get a message saying the device is busy.  
This is because esound is using it.  And because esound is using it via 
/dev/dsp, the OSS emulation layer, it has exclusive control of sound.  
Will pulse audio be better?
>> Should I open a bugzilla against esound because it won't let me use alsa 
>> calls to restrict the sound card to hardware supported rates, or is that 
>> futile given the huge dependencies on esound?
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> It is possible to change the config of the OSS emulation devices using
> asoundrc.
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I want to do what is possible on F7.  Call alsa and get the information 
for the default device.  Then programatically build a new call string 
and call alsa with that string to open a device.  Once the device is 
open I want to use alsa calls to restrict the frame rate to hardware 
supported rates.  Will this be possible under pulse audio?
>> Is there a fork from alsa occurring?
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> Uh, no.
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>> Is OSS being revived?
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> What?! Now you're just talking crazy...
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Glad to hear it.
I am just seeing that there are 478 packages depending on a daemon that 
still is using OSS type terminology.  i.e. /dev/dsp /dev/dsp2  instead 
of plughw or default or ...etc.

I'll upgrade from esound/esd to pulseaudio and try again.

Thank you for answering my questions and putting up with my ignorance 
about this.