[Bug 34604] Re: OSS not included, likelihood of having easy-to-use sound / ever being sane drastically reduced

[Daniel T Chen]

The Sound Blaster "Live!" has one of the best supported ALSA drivers
(snd_emu10k1). Yes, the mixer complexity is utterly baffling, but some
people actually want control over all that. There is excellent
documentation at http://alsa.opensrc.org/ for the Live!s and Audigys.

That said, what you probably meant to rant on is "Ubuntu doesn't enable
OSS/Free support by default". That's a fairly obvious decision given
upstream(kernel.org)'s decision to deprecate OSS/Free (while retaining
the source code so that it actually is still compiled). The same
rationale is used for the Ubuntu Dapper kernel: While OSS/Free is not
enabled by default, the modules are still compiled and are available.
You simply need to unload the ALSA drivers (prefixed with snd_ in lsmod
output) and load emu10k1.

** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: alsa-driver => linux-source-2.6.15
   Importance: Medium => Wishlist
       Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected

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OSS not included, likelihood of having easy-to-use sound / ever being sane drastically reduced
https://launchpad.net/bugs/34604