On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 02:49:42PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > The alsa-base modprobe files forcible loads the oss compatibilty > > modules. This introduces large problems because it can't longer use dmix > > to make more than one process use the sound output. > We have the package oss-compat which does the same. This package is > required from many, many debian packages.....
alsa-oss exists also and can be used by some of them. You are just
trading a shared ressource (alsa/dmix) against an exclusive one (oss
emu).
> Hmm, what to do?
Remove that code from alsa-base. oss-compat exists and according to the
description it should be used as a dependency in packages which needs
it. Also the user is always free to load them on there own.
Bastian
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