[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

Sun Oct 9 13:34:14 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 08/10/11 20:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 8 October 2011 19:35, 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.
+
+As we'll eventually have to go through all the packages that require
+soundwrapper, perhaps we could either:
+
+a) Replace the soundwrapper require with a ossp require.
+b) Patch soundwrapper such that it's a noop if osspd is running and make
+it require ossp.
+
+The latter would mean less churn on packages, but it's arguably just
+delaying the inevitable work of doing it eventually.
+
+Thoughts?
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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