On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:56, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/20/08 23:03, H.S. wrote: >> >> Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:58 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS. >> >>> lsmod will list your loaded modules. snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss, >>> and snd_seq_oss, are all part of the alsa oss emulation. >> >> Yes I have those same ones. dpkg also does not really list any relevant >> *oss* package. However, I discovered I have linux-sound-base which >> appears to provide oss. And in KDE's sound configuration gui, one of the >> systems to choose from is OSS. To me it appears that I do have oss. >> Hence the lack of any useful information from Ron's message where he >> used the word "shouldn't". > > Here's a slightly different question: what makes you think that you *do* > have OSS? > > Given that OSS has been deprecated for FIVE years, and I *VERY STRONGLY* > doubt that the Debian Kernel Team have configured the OSS modules. (I > compile my own kernel from linux-source-2.6.xx, so I can't say for certain.)
I dug around and found the modinfo command... $ sudo modinfo sound filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/sound/oss/sound.ko author: Hannu Savolainen, et al. description: OSS Sound subsystem <snip> vs. $ sudo modinfo snd-pcm-oss filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko alias: sound-service-?-12 alias: sound-service-?-3 license: GPL description: PCM OSS emulation for ALSA. <snip> This is from kernel 2.6.26-1-686 in Sid. H.S., you could run modinfo on any sound-related modules from lsmod to verify that they are not OSS Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
