[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]

[Chris Brannon]

Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon at 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