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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