Folks, I haven't been closely been involved with the decision to remove OSS from the kernel, and I see that it causes frustration to have functionality removed, but I know that it wouldn't have been done if it haven't helped against frustration at some other end. I believe Daniel T Chen has trying to explain some of that higher up in the thread here.
So for options for people bitten by this problem, here are the options as I see it: 1) Help out by moving programs and hardware from OSS to ALSA. File bugs. Retest PulseAudio, file bugs (with e g "ubuntu-bug audio") if things do not work as expected, help out with testing. This is the recommended and most constructive approach. 2) Stay with Lucid, an LTS release which will be supported for three years on the desktop. You can enable lucid-backports if you want later versions of some programs. 3) Build your own kernel. Note that it won't get updated via -security or -updates if you do that. I also note that this change was done in May, and the first response comment in August - three months later! This means to me, that this issue either affect relatively few people, or that we lack testers of the development release. -- Please disable CONFIG_SOUND_OSS* and CONFIG_SND_*OSS* https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
