On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:56:45AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > OSS in Linux is unmaintained, doesn't support much current hardware, and > will not be included in future kernel packages. Unfortunately, there > are still some applications living in the 90s and trying to write to > /dev/dsp. These can be worked around using "aoss" or other wrappers > that use a preload library to redirect /dev/dsp, but users should not > have to do this. The snd-pcm-oss module provides /dev/dsp on top of > ALSA, but it doesn't work with software mixing.
I intend to recommend that applications follow Lennart Poettering's audio API guide when updating their code: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html which provides a good overview of the available options when doing this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
