OSS

[Bryan Pizzuti]

Ok, so wait a sec...why is it compiled into the Ubuntu kernel? ;)  Or
maybe something with the detection just got screwey...my GNOME volume
control shows an OSS audio device (Analog Devices AD1981B) and several
apps aren't playing sound...maybe they're trying to access this OSS
device, which I doubt exists.  DVDs won't play, SVGALIB and SDL apps
aren't making sounds.....but anything else (mostly X-based stuff,
including X-MAME) plays fine.

I'll see what happens with this PentiumM kernel I'm compiling does.
Once again OSS is all yanked out, only this time around I left most of
the others stuff alone (and left my wireless as a module....that's what
didn't work the last time). 

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:25 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, November 15, 2004 13:53, Bryan Pizzuti said:
> > It should be allright to remove all of the OSS support and drivers from
> > the kernel when compiling, right? I'm under the impression (from looking
> 
> It's more than alright, it's the correct way to do it now. As of linux 2.6
> OSS is deprecated and will disappear eventually. As you noticed, ALSA
> provides OSS emulation for the many applications that have not been
> updated yet if you pick that option in the ALSA section, so you don't need
> the OSS section of the config at all.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Chris Jones
>   cmsj at tenshu.net
>    www.tenshu.net
> 
>