Hi, Thanks to the input of various people on this list, it seems it isn't completely insane to try to switch to ALSA by default. Some notes:
- some hardware still isn't well supported with ALSA when it used to work with OSS - some hardware is only supported under ALSA - newer kernels which should ship with etch are only supporting ALSA - ALSA has OSS emulation - some advanced functionalities are only supported by ALSA (as some 5.1 hardware) - statistics comparing the level of support between ALSA and OSS would be interesting - some applications don't deal with OSS correctly anymore - some applications still don't work in pure ALSA and require OSS or OSS emulation - Hurd and FreeBSD don't have ALSA From the above, my action plan has been updated to: - ship GStreamer with default audiosink alsasink and NEWS.Debian - ship a new GStreamer empty package gstreamer0.8-defaultaudiosink depending on the current preferred sound output, ie. ALSA on Linux and OSS on Hurd and BSD - request all GStreamer apps using an audiosink to update their deps to "gstreamer0.8-defaultaudiosink | gstreamer0.8-audiosink" - do not bother about esound has it will be either brought back in shape or superseded and is deactivated by default I might look into coordinating a wider sound transitions from OSS to ALSA, perhaps with KDE folks first, but I've not decided yet. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
