H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System#OSS_in_relation_to_ALSA >> >> OSS is the standard up through the 2.4 series of official >> (kernel.org) Linux kernels. ALSA was added starting with 2.5, >> and in those versions, Linux kernel authors marked OSS as >> deprecated.
Following up on my previous response, I must thank you for the second link above. Since this what I was more looking for (I already had some idea *what* they were, but wasn't clear about whether I can ditch one): "ALSA provides an optional OSS emulation mode that appears to programs as if it were OSS. Similarly, there is an ALSA emulation mode in the Linux implementation of OSS. "While some recommend the ALSA interface for software that is intended to work on modern Linux only, software intended to be portable across Unixes typically uses OSS instead. "Developers[4] often find OSS better documented than ALSA and find OSS API much simpler." So my next query is how do I find out if any application in Debian requires OSS other than using the obvious brute force method? Is it even possible? > This is what I am most interested in ... how exactly? > > And, er, no matter whether I eventually have alsa or oss on my system, I still neas a sound daemon (esd, pulse audio, etc.)? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
