alsa-oss

[Fibonacci Prower]

2006/9/25, Kevin Fenzi <kevin-redhat-devel at scrye.com>:
> >>>>> "Fibonacci" == Fibonacci Prower <fibonacci.prower at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Fibonacci> Hello, Is there any reason why the alsa-oss package isn't
> Fibonacci> part of Fedora? It has been said before (most notably in
> Fibonacci> the Fedora forum) that OSS emulation modules are enabled by
> Fibonacci> default, and therefore alsa-oss is obsolete, but aoss
> Fibonacci> provides extra functionalities impossible to achieve with
> Fibonacci> the kernel modules, such as software mixing of output,
> Fibonacci> which are very useful for proprietary apps (Flash, Skype,
> Fibonacci> etc) that use only OSS.
>
> Fibonacci> http://alsa.opensrc.org/aoss "Usage of aoss is preferred
> Fibonacci> over kernel-level OSS emulation because if you need use the
> Fibonacci> PCM plugin layer, enabling the use of the Dmix Plugin or
> Fibonacci> asym."
>
> Fibonacci> I think that pretty much sums it up.  See the full thread
> Fibonacci> on the Fedora forum for more information:
> Fibonacci> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=125194
>
> Well, alsa-oss was submitted for review to be added to fedora-extras
> quite a while ago.  (In fact it currently has the distinction of being
> the new review request with the least recent activity on it).
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187706
>
> You might add a comment there that you need this package and why?

Done.

>
> Fibonacci> Thank you for your time,
> Fibonacci> -Fibo
>
> kevin
>

-Fibo

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