[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support

Sun Feb 5 18:59:58 CET 2012

Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> '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
+
+I've released and uploaded a new version of soundwrapper (first one in 4 years :o) that is a no-op if osspd is running.
+
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