[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#499695: Bug#499695: alsa-base - forcible loads oss compatibility modules

[Bastian Blank]

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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