Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:43:47PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > Yes. Nevertheless, there is a libsalsa that provides a libasound2 > emulation layer for OSS. I'm not aware of whether it has been packaged > or even whether it is suitable, since I don't run GNU/kFreeBSD anymore. It should do t

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
brian m. carlson, le Wed 04 Mar 2009 15:43:47 +, a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:25:48AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >Paul Wise (04/03/2009): > >>Is ALSA supported by kFreeBSD or hurd or other unofficial ports? > > > >Last time I checked, GNU/kFreeBSD provided with OSS, not with ALS

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-04 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:25:48AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Paul Wise (04/03/2009): Is ALSA supported by kFreeBSD or hurd or other unofficial ports? Last time I checked, GNU/kFreeBSD provided with OSS, not with ALSA (which is, as its name suggests, Linux-specific). Yes. Nevertheless,

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Wise (04/03/2009): > Is ALSA supported by kFreeBSD or hurd or other unofficial ports? Last time I checked, GNU/kFreeBSD provided with OSS, not with ALSA (which is, as its name suggests, Linux-specific). Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Quite a few packages support only OSS, not ALSA.  Nowadays there's quite > little probability that your sound board only has an OSS driver, and so > there is quite little probability that quite a few packages work out the > box. Is ALSA su

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Cristau, le Tue 03 Mar 2009 20:36:23 +0100, a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 20:27:54 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Are there plans on this issue? Drop packages? Always load snd_pcm_oss? > > > Make those packages depend on oss-compat? Ah, didn't know that one. Very few packages d

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 20:27:54 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Are there plans on this issue? Drop packages? Always load snd_pcm_oss? > Make those packages depend on oss-compat? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 03 Mar 2009 20:27:54 +0100, a écrit : > Quite a few packages support only OSS, not ALSA. > [...] > > Are there plans on this issue? Drop packages? Always load snd_pcm_oss? Put another way: how severe should bugs like #517853 [G|M| ] [saytime] saytime: depends on the OS

OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Quite a few packages support only OSS, not ALSA. Nowadays there's quite little probability that your sound board only has an OSS driver, and so there is quite little probability that quite a few packages work out the box. Of course, there are solutions: fix the apps, load snd_pcm_oss, or