Bug 147942

Summary:	alsa-lib should include alsa-oss
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Naadir Jeewa <njeewa>
Component:	alsa-lib	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
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Description Naadir Jeewa 2005-02-13 17:10:24 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050203 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
So that AC97 devices can make full use of software mixing, kernel OSS emulation should be obsoleted in favour of using AOSS.

Not sure if this is resolved yet, as i'm using alsa-lib compiled via portage.

Applications which are known to use OSS (such as RealPlayer), should have a script in /usr/bin that runs LD_PRELOAD first.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use an OSS application
  

Actual Results:  OSS app uses kernel OSS emulation

Expected Results:  It should use AOSS

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Comment 1 Naadir Jeewa 2005-02-13 17:49:44 UTC

We should compile a list of applications that will need
"LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libaoss.so" added to their scripts.

* - Firefox see (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=147941)
* - Mozilla
* - Helix? (Work on Alsa isn't complete AFAIK)

Comment 2 Mike Hearn 2005-07-14 13:16:47 UTC

Actually, a better way to go would be to LD_PRELOAD it into the entire desktop
session. That's the only way it'll "Just Work". Unfortunately alsa-oss isn't
quite stable enough for that yet.