[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

Mon Oct 10 12:02:55 CEST 2011

On 10 October 2011 11:20, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>>> 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 ?
+
+Last time I checked  (6 monthes ago), yes some old quake[12] games.
+
+Historically, we also have (had?) cases of apps not supporting alsa,
+or not supporting alsa new api (1.0.9+ ?), ...
+
+OSS support doesn't cost anything to us, so I see no reason to not
+enable us by default like we do for years.
+