Re: Is OSS only support to be considered a bug?
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:20:34PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> With the 2.6 kernel programs using OSS for sound are not working
> anymore. Sound that is. One *may* use aoss, but then the user needs to
> open a terminal and write:
>
> aoss program-name
>
> because launching from the menu it won't work. So I consider aoss only
> as a temporary dirty hack before alsa takes over completely.
AFAIU , FreeBSD only support OSS, so OSS support should be kept for
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
> My question is if it is legitimately to open bugs against applications
> that only support OSS for spund?
The important thing is to fix bugs rather than reporting them. In 99% of
case these are upstream bugs with no easy fix. Patches would probably be
very welcome.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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