From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alistair John Strachan Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:29:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> List-Id: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103160502.GB5262@irc.pl> In-Reply-To: <20060103160502.GB5262@irc.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tomasz Torcz Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 03 January 2006 16:05, Tomasz Torcz wrote: [snip] > > > > [alistair] 15:20 [~/Music/Led Zeppelin - I] ogg123 -q --device=oss 01\ -\ > > Good\ Times\ Bad\ Times.ogg > > Error: Cannot open device oss. > > Proper way (using userspace OSS emulation): > aoss ogg123 -q --device=oss [...] I'm aware of this. This has nothing to do with the kernel option CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL which Jan referred to, and to which I was responding. "aoss" is also not compatible with every conceivable program. This is exactly why the OSS emulation option in ALSA is really a last resort and should not be an excuse for people to ignore implementing ALSA support directly. More so, it is very good justification for ditching "everything OSS" as soon as possible, at least in new software. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.