OSS drivers

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Sun Oct 31 19:04:42 CST 2004


On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 05:02:18PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> The OSS drivers have been blacklisted in hotplug for all of Ubuntu's
> existence, and there have been various problems caused by them being
> unintentionally loaded (e.g., by discover, or by a user following some
> outdated documentation).
> 
> Is there any reason to continue to build them at all?

Well they're useful when the ALSA driver fails, e.g., there is
still a bug report where the ALSA driver for the i810 chipset
fails but the OSS driver works.

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