Suggesting oss-compat does *not* fix this bug. Most audio hardware is limited to one playback channel and requires mixing to be done in userland. The ALSA userland library handles this transparently to the application whereas in-kernel OSS compatibility cannot. So use of /dev/dsp under Linux still requires either:
1. Disabling PulseAudio or other sound mixer daemon 2. Running the program under a wrapper that intercepts use of /dev/dsp It is not acceptable that packaged software requires such workarounds. It is a wheezy release goal to stop using /dev/dsp on Linux <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoLinuxDevDsp>. Maybe this can't be fixed in time for wheezy now, but it should be dealt with anyway. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn Scheppner
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