Re: OSS-only applications

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Subject: Re: OSS-only applications
From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:15:03 +0000
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:43:47PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> Yes.  Nevertheless, there is a libsalsa that provides a libasound2
> emulation layer for OSS.  I'm not aware of whether it has been packaged
> or even whether it is suitable, since I don't run GNU/kFreeBSD anymore.

It should do the job fine if it works - the application interface for
ALSA on Linux is library-only, applications never have any dealings with
the ALSA drivers that aren't mediated via libasound2.

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- Re: OSS-only applications
  - From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
- Re: OSS-only applications
  - From: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
- Re: OSS-only applications
  - From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>

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