From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: devel@lists.altlinux.org From: Sergey Bolshakov Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:55:35 +0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [devel] [gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general] [PACKAGERS] Please disable OSS in your distributions! X-BeenThere: devel@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: ALT Linux Team development discussions List-Id: ALT Linux Team development discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:55:37 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Poettering Newsgroups: gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general Subject: [PACKAGERS] Please disable OSS in your distributions! Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:41:00 +0200 Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Lines: 23 Approved: news@gmane.org Message-ID: <20090723144100.GA4314@tango.0pointer.de> Reply-To: General PulseAudio Discussion NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248360098 16780 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2009 14:41:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:41:38 +0000 (UTC) To: PulseAudio Discussion List Original-X-From: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@mail.0pointer.de Thu Jul 23 16:41:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcapd-polypaudio-discuss@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from tango.0pointer.de ([85.214.72.216]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTzU9-0003FP-9y for gcapd-polypaudio-discuss@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from tango.0pointer.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tango.0pointer.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E41F132F0; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:41:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de Delivered-To: pulseaudio-discuss@tango.0pointer.de Original-Received: by tango.0pointer.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5073A132F0; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:41:00 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: PulseAudio Discussion List X-Campaign-1: () ASCII Ribbon Campaign X-Campaign-2: / Against HTML Email & vCards - Against Microsoft Attachments User-Agent: Leviathan/19.8.0 [zh] (Cray 3; I; Solaris 4.711; Console) X-BeenThere: pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: General PulseAudio Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@mail.0pointer.de Errors-To: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@mail.0pointer.de Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general:4213 Archived-At: MIME-Version: 1.0 Heya! Just a little heads-up for distro packagers: please consider disabling OSS in your distributions! We did so in Fedora 11 and it went very well, we only got two bug reports or so and the respective programs have now been fixed. Fedora 11 installations are now OSS-free by default, which I think is a big step ahead to drain the linux audio swamp. I'd really like to see that other distros follow suit. The recommended way to disable OSS is to make sure the snd-pcm-oss/snd-seq-oss modules aren't loaded anymore by default when when snd-pcm is. This can be done by commenting a line in /etc/modprobe.d/ somewhere. Doing this allows folks to easily reenable OSS again but has the advantrage that legacy apps cannot fuck up device access for PA anymore. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4