On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Warren Togami wrote:
> 1) Keep the OSS kernel modules.
> 2) alsa-plugins-pulseaudio ships /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-oss-sound,
> thereby preventing loading of these kernel modules and interfering with
> pulseaudio daemon.
> 3) If the user wants to use an OSS sound application they can use padsp
> manually.
> 4) Native OSS comes back if the user uninstalls alsa-plugins-pulseaudio,
> which also makes it so nothing uses pulseaudio for sound output.
The problem with that is that they will continue saying "PulseAudio broke my
apps". If we just remove OSS sound support entirely, they won't have a
reason to blame PulseAudio anymore.
Speaking just for myself, PulseAudio did not work for me until F-10.
Now it works, but only with the "tsched=0" hack (I did not report
anything because I didn't care much about PulseAudio).
Thus killing the good old loyal OSS in favor of PulseAudio does not
sound right to me. Maybe we should wait a little longer for pulseaudio
to mature.
Orcan