Bug#282745: gnome-media: gnome-volume-control fails to find OSS mixer device

[Joey Hess]

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Josselin Mouette wrote:
> This shouldn't be the case at first; with this sound card, you should
> end up with the ALSA drivers, as the OSS ones should be blacklisted in
> discover and hotplug. debian-boot people, do you have an idea of what is
> happening?

alsa is not currently installed as part of any sarge task no matter what
kernel is detected. AFAIK it is also not supported by discover1 at all.

FWIW, I have seen this bug in my test installs too. Gnome's assumption
of alsa is incorrect.

> The strange thing is that /system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink
> defaults to osssink. It should have worked out of the box for your
> system. Was gstreamer0.8-oss installed with the default setup?

Is it a dependency of gnome-desktop-environment? If not, no, of course
it will not be installed by default.

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