Today, I finished my FrugalBuild for adding the OSSv4 API and drivers to
Frugalware. I would like to ask for people to help with testing this new
package. I have only tested it myself, so I don't know if it is working
properly on any other system right now. Keep in mind, you must be using
current. For me, it was as as easy as this:

sudo pacman -Sy oss oss-gtk-mixer
sudo service oss start

And to remove it later:
sudo pacman -R oss oss-gtk-mixer

And it replaced ALSA with its scripts. From my tests, it seems to be 100%
reversible if you remove the package later, automatically. You can use the
program 'ossxmix' to modify the sound levels with a GUI mixer. I am hoping
I have already resolved the issues, but I need a second opinion to finish
off any rough patches I may have missed. Finally, you will need to point
your audio programs to use an OSS backend. Many already come with this,
either through a library backend, direct support, or otherwise. I await
feedback now.

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