[Linux-disciples] OSS v. ALSA

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:54:23PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> It looks like I need to compile OSS into the kernel on top
> of ALSA, or else my sound card doesn't work. This despite
> the 'DEPRECATED' label attached to OSS within xconfig. I
> gather that ALSA supersedes OSS, and that ALSA's API
> replaced OSS's. Can someone explain why I need to compile
> them both?

There is OSS emulation under ALSA, OSS_EMUL.  You should be using this
rather than true OSS.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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