Bug#660803: oss-compat 3 problems with udev and breaks audio

[Michael Hatzold]

Package: oss-compat
Version: 3
Followup-For: Bug #660803

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
updating oss-compat form v2 to v3

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
apt-get install oss-compat (pulled and installed v3, then reboot)
   * What was the outcome of this action?
During boot a delay of more then one minute at
"udev [473] /sbin/modprobe -b pci. <very large number>"
after more than a minute:
"terminated by signal 9 (killed)"
-> alsa error during boot  "no soundcard found/configured"
boot completes, but no sound, no soundcard.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Working sound even with oss-dependent applications


What I found out:

- manually deleting "/etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf" lets alsa configure the
soundcard at next boot (but then applications depending on oss-compat won't
work).
- apt-get install oss-compat/testing" *won't* work, as it does not replace
/etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf (v3) with /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf (v2)
- apt-get install oss-compat/testing" *will* work if you remove
/etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf beforehand.

To me it seems that the new format of /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf is the
main problem.

And a sidenote:
oss-compat (3) *recommends* osspd, which when installed *replaces* oss-compat
(but leaves /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf at its palce). But then whether I
remove /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf or not, plication dependign on oss wont
work with ossdp.

So here the only working solution is:
manually remove /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf (v3)
install oss-compat/testing (=v2)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.9-2.towo-siduction-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages oss-compat depends on:
ii  kmod  9-3

Versions of packages oss-compat recommends:
pn  osspd  <none>

oss-compat suggests no packages.

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