Return of the King? (OSSv4)

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2009/4/20 Orcan Ogetbil>:
>> OSS has hardware drivers. It comes with bunch of kernel modules.
> That would mean backport of already present oss kernel modules or are
> theses OSS kernel modules was removed previously and only the compat
> layer was available ?
>

I think the latter, but I'm not very sure. I was wondering if anyone
here did some tests.

> What is the "userland" needs for that ?
> In my case (vlc), Iv'e disabled the oss support (along with v4l1) by F-11
>

I disabled OSS in some of my packages too. But if OSSv4 works better
than ALSA for some users, it is worth considering. I guess we need to
do more research.

> I'm not against to have some experiments done externally from rpmfusion
> (read: I would allow it a "tobedefined" rpmfusion-experimental), but
> not if this mean recompilation of userland applications.
>
> Nicolas (kwizart)
>

I agree.

Orcan