SOLUTION: provide a PPA containing a custom OSS enabled kernel How about that ?
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Psychotron <[email protected]>wrote: > So OSS doesn't support some advanced features? Sure. But why does that > mean OSS support needs to be broken? If users of some OSS-only app want > these features, they can bug the authors to add support for PA or > whatever. > > As for grabbing devices exclusively, I'm under the impression that it's > possible for a long time to allow even OSS apps to access devices in > parallel with ALSA. At least I haven't had problems with that for years > now. > > Space for these three modules is 124K on my system.... > > And really: in this particular case I don't understand the necessity of > the removal. It's not that OSS is a system foundation and it's just too > limited for the future. It's just an ADDON. You can safely ignore it if > your apps all use ALSA. If you want to get it out of the main kernel, > then at least provide it as a separate package, e.g. using DKMS. > > Besides the fact, that aoss (and possibly padsp) does not really work, > it's also much less comfortable. OSS emulation modules "just work", with > aoss you have to find out about it first. Then find out what and how to > change. Probably nothing the average user is able to. > > And sure there are guides to compile a kernel. Still it's not exactly a > 5min job. And when will this advanced kernel build system see the light > of day? Nobody knows? That's not a great base for an alternative > solution. And again: it takes hours! On every update! I don't want to > imagine how log it takes on a netbook... And what for? For three tiny > modules! > > Also in my experience with Ubuntu it's unfortunately only partly > possible to stick with an LTS release. There is just always a breakage > wich is only fixed in the next release. In my example with Lucid the > broken radeon driver. Also sometimes you just need a newer version of > some software. E.g. the latest KDE is only supported for the last two > Ubuntu releases or so. So you want to tell users: Sorry you can't > upgrade to a newer desktop shell, if you want to keep the mixer of you > TV app working? > > So telling users to stick with LTS is only partly an option. Let alone > that I don't have much faith everything will be fixed with say the next > LTS. > > The solution is pretty simple: readd the modules in some way or another! > It hurts nobody (unless proved otherwise) and every other "solution" is > just inferior. > > PS: In my case the app is tvtime and what doesn't work is the mixer > (i.e. adjusting volume). > > -- > Please disable CONFIG_SOUND_OSS* and CONFIG_SND_*OSS* > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579300 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- 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
