Hi all!
I have read this bug report after some trouble with OSS4 an its
uninstallation in Jessie an I found a problem related to the last note
in this message:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:33:28 -0600 Romain Beauxis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Le mardi 24 novembre 2009 23:33:53, Norbert Preining a écrit :
> > installing oss4-base disables ALSA without asking and without
> > any interference, and in addition does not provide automatically
> > some for the running kernel.
> >
> > In addition, there is NO documentation about what to do and how
> > to configure this package or achive some swithcing result.
> >
> > Could you please put a bit of work into that.
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> Believe it or not, we put some work in this package.
>
> Providing default kernel modules could be an interesting option and
we should
> consider it at some point.
>
> Concerning the desactivation of ALSA, it can be made optional.
However, I
> believe that a user that installs oss4 is well aware that this needs to
> disable ALSA, so I don't think that the fact that the package
disables ALSA is
> confusing to him.
>
> Additionally, if you want to re-enable ALSA, you may simply remove
the oss4-
> core package.
>
>
> Romain
>
>
>
If you install oss4-base and remove it, it leaves following files in
/etc/modprobe.d:
oss4-base.conf
oss4-base_noALSA.conf
oss4-base_noOSS3.conf
These files blacklist a lot of kernel modules including e.g.
snd-hda-intel, which prevents ALSA from working again. (my case) These
files have to be removed manually, then everything works like before.
I am not sure if this is a standard behaviour, but I thought it would be
good to point it out.
Thank you for your great work!
Karel Hruska
