On Dec 10, 2007 2:16 PM, Alou Dialy <aloudialy@yahoo.com> wrote: > Why cant I use oss I dont want to install alsa. You can use OSS, but it is has been deprecated for a long time and more and more OSS drivers are being removed from the kernel. It probably won't be too long until all of OSS is removed. ALSA has a better architecture and better maintained drivers.