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