Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> wrote:
How will this affect people who don't wish to run PulseAudio? Â Can they still have their ALSA OSS emulation, or will they need to run PulseAudio for applications which still use OSS?
Most desktop users would want to blacklist the OSS emulation - it doesn't support software mixing. *SNIP* An even better alternative is osspd, which uses CUSE to provide the devices. It can redirect to either ALSA or PulseAudio.
If disabling the OSS emulation would be made the default, and the modules only loaded if added to MODULES in rc.conf, I would welcome that.
Disabling OSS preclaim for everyone by altering the kernel config should be safe to do. It's even in the feature removal schedule:
Thanks for the answer. All of this sounds good, and I like your plan. -- Chris