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From: n952162@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:06:36
Message-Id: trinity-48ad5e24-e06c-4d61-b249-0cda2519bd34-1582103178206@3c-app-webde-bap38
1 I can't play audio from my VBox. The host system only plays audio through the second sound card (1). The VBox offers me OSS or the null driver. The Alsa and pulseaudio pages say OSS is "deprecated". Is Oracle out of the picture? I can't find the straight dope.
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3 Do I have to convince VBox to talk to a different sound card?

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