[pulseaudio-discuss] [PACKAGERS] Please disable OSS in your distributions!

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/07/09 15:41 did gyre and gimble:
> Heya!
> 
> Just a little heads-up for distro packagers: please consider disabling
> OSS in your distributions!
> 
> We did so in Fedora 11 and it went very well, we only got two bug
> reports or so and the respective programs have now been fixed. Fedora
> 11 installations are now OSS-free by default, which I think is a big
> step ahead to drain the linux audio swamp.
> 
> I'd really like to see that other distros follow suit. The recommended
> way to disable OSS is to make sure the snd-pcm-oss/snd-seq-oss modules
> aren't loaded anymore by default when when snd-pcm is. This can be
> done by commenting a line in /etc/modprobe.d/ somewhere. Doing this
> allows folks to easily reenable OSS again but has the advantrage that
> legacy apps cannot fuck up device access for PA anymore.

What are your thoughts on ossp progress?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tj/ossp/

It seesm 2.6.31 will have the necessary stuff in it to support this 
(CUSE support is in 2.6.31rc series), which should mean much friendlier 
OSS app support with PA.

I know you were a bit sceptical in the past, but has this changed?

Col

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