[Bug 579300] Re: Please disable CONFIG_SOUND_OSS* and CONFIG_SND_*OSS*

[Steve Church]

I get that OSS has been deprecated for quite some time.  I get that
deprecated features eventually disappear.  I get that the only way
developers will stop developing for OSS is for OSS no longer to exist;
and likewise for hardware manufacturers' depending on OSS.

As an end user, I want my stuff to work, though.  It's not my
responsibility to sacrifice for the greater good.  I'm not interested in
policing the confusion in the spaghetti code of audio in Linux.  I don't
care about enforcing proper procedures in shaping the development of
multimedia applications.  That's not my role.

It's an intolerable situation.  Mr. Chen has his motivations; I have
mine.  Unfortunately, the two are mutually exclusive.

So, like Christophe Van Reusel before me, I'm pursuing the only recourse
left available.  I'm henceforth giving up on Canonical's kernels.  I
compiled my own kernel with OSS modules re-enabled, and I will refuse
upgrades until I no longer have analog cable television service.

For what it's worth, at first I tried Mr. Van Reusel's packaged kernel
and headers.  For some reason on my machine, dkms failed to compile the
NVidia kernel stuff when I installed them.  So I made my own.  See
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1607546 for details.  I have my
.config attached there if anyone wants it.

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Please disable CONFIG_SOUND_OSS* and CONFIG_SND_*OSS*
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579300
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