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On Monday 05 June 2006 23:13, Harald van Dijk wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:48:37AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:31, Harald van Dijk wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > > On Monday 05 June 2006 21:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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> > > > > > -oss - oss is a legacy audio interface that has been superseeded |
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> > > > > > by alsa in most current installs, a default use flag is no longer |
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> > > > > > needed |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but |
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> > > > > work only via the OSS emulation. Removing this is a bad idea and |
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> > > > > it would definitely be blocked by the games team. Probably half of |
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> > > > > the packages that I maintain require OSS capabilities. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > do we really need the USE flag though ? i was under the impression |
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> > > > that you need to enable the OSS compat layer in the kernel and that's |
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> > > > enough ... and the USE flag doesnt affect kernel build options ... |
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> > > |
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> > > It depends on whether you use the kernel drivers or the alsa-driver |
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> > > package, I think. |
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> > |
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> > you dont use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels and the 2006.1 profiles are 2.6 |
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> > based |
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> |
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> You can use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels. |
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I use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels. I forget exactly why (this was almost two |
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years ago), but I actually switched _away_ from the in-kernel-tree drivers to |
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alsa-driver for some particular reason. |
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I have the oss useflag turned off, and then turned back on for alsa-driver in |
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package.use. |
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