[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

Sun Oct 9 18:20:24 CEST 2011

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
+
+> 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.
+
+Or both
+