Disable OSS sound by default in Fedora 11, compat-broken-oss-sound

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 00:19:18 UTC 2009


Michel Salim wrote:
> Granted that this is hopefully a rare enough scenario, but what will
> be the user experience of someone installing compat-broken-oss?
> 
> - would a restart be required, or would the %post of the package load
> the required modules?
> 
> - since it replaces alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, are there
> PulseAudio-aware applications that will fail over miserably if PA is
> not running? They probably should fall back to ALSA but we probably
> need a test plan in place.
> 

If you want to put work into that, go ahead.  Otherwise, there is a 
reason why it is named compat-BROKEN-oss-sound.

Really few people will ever need this package because padsp emulation 
works in most cases.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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