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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] OSS sound support</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
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    <I>Mon Oct 10 12:02:55 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 10 October 2011 11:20, Guillaume Rousse &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> If you want to use OSS apps with PulseAudio, please install &quot;ossp&quot;
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> package which I've also just submitted.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I think ultimately we'll disable ALSA OSS emulation completely and use
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> ossp in both PA and non-PA modes but I hear that the non-PA usage isn't
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> quite as nice, so I'm holding off doing this just yet.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> then task-pa should suggests ossp...
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</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I'm undecided about this. I'm not sure if the default setup should
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> include OSS sound support or not. Perhaps it would be better left as
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> something that users install if they need it.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> We'd support for OSS, I don't see any reason to drop that support
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> gratuitously
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Just for curiosity, where is OSS support needed nowadays ? Quake and co ?
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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.
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