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Re: debian 2.1r3 needed and release team coordination



On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:

> > > IIRC, there are two different sets of sound devices, OSS ones and ALSA
> > > ones.
> > 
> > Are they incompatible?
> > 
> > I refer to /dev/sound, /dev/dsp, etc.

[ oops, I meant /dev/audio ].

> I believe so.  However, ALSA is available as a separate package, while OSS
> is not.  It would be possible to create the OSS devices as part of the
> base install and replace them with the ALSA version if the ALSA packages
> are installed.

Sorry for my ignorance, I didn't know this.

Do you mean these devices have different major and/or minor numbers
under OSS and under ALSA in such way that they may not be present
in the system at the same time?

Thanks.

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