[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

Sat Oct 8 19:35:58 CEST 2011

Hi,
+
+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.
+
+The benefit of this is that we can remove soundwrapper and all the
+various patches and kludges added for that.
+
+We'll hopefully see some support for mmap mode in ossp soon and then we
+should have a fairly robust system for supporting legacy apps (such as
+some old, but still perfectly playable games) which only speak OSS.
+
+After installing ossp, you'll have to enable it with "systemctl enable
+osspd.service"
+
+Note: At the moment, there is an issue setting ACL on /dev/dsp so you'll
+need to run something like:
+
+   sudo setfacl -m user:$USER:rw- /dev/{dsp,mixer}
+
+after logging in until I can work out how this is done :D
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
+Day Job:
+  Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/
+Open Source:
+  Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/
+  PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/
+  Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
+