[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 09/10/2011 18:20, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
> On 9 October 2011 13:34, Colin Guthrie<mageia at colin.guthr.ie>  wrote:
>>>> I've just pushed some changes that disable OSS sound under PulseAudio
>>>> sound profile.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to use OSS apps with PulseAudio, please install "ossp"
>>>> package which I've also just submitted.
>>>>
>>>> I think ultimately we'll disable ALSA OSS emulation completely and use
>>>> ossp in both PA and non-PA modes but I hear that the non-PA usage isn't
>>>> quite as nice, so I'm holding off doing this just yet.
>>>
>>> then task-pa should suggests ossp...
>>
>> I'm undecided about this. I'm not sure if the default setup should
>> include OSS sound support or not. Perhaps it would be better left as
>> something that users install if they need it.
>
> We'd support for OSS, I don't see any reason to drop that support
> gratuitously
Just for curiosity, where is OSS support needed nowadays ? Quake and co ?

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