On Thu,20.Nov.08, 16:59:06, H.S. wrote: > So my next query is how do I find out if any application in Debian > requires OSS other than using the obvious brute force method? Is it even > possible? Usually the package description mentions it, but I doubt there is a maintained software that doesn't support alsa. > And, er, no matter whether I eventually have alsa or oss on my system, I > still neas a sound daemon (esd, pulse audio, etc.)? With alsa and the dmix plugin (enabled by default) you don't really need a sound daemon unless you want to do more advanced stuff (like sound over the network). Not sure about oss, haven't used it in quite a while. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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