King InuYasha wrote:
Because, a.out format is just a binary format, which is relatively easy to replace, while OSS is something that deals with hardware. In some cases (rare as it is), ALSA just doesn't work while OSS _does_ work. A case in point, one of my desktops has a VIA board, which breaks horribly in ALSA with its integrated audio. However, OSS works fine with it. PulseAudio can output to OSS as well as ALSA, right? In cases like this, I usually default PulseAudio to the OSS sink instead of the ALSA one. ALSA isn't the end all sink solution. If we want to disable it, we need to be certain that everything is on par with OSS or better. ALSA just isn't there yet, sorry people....
The "OSS" in current Fedora kernels is not OSS at all, it's ALSA's OSS emulation. So I don't see how it would work any better than ALSA itself does.
Kevin Kofler