On Monday 05 June 2006 23:13, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:48:37AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:31, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:07:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On Monday 05 June 2006 21:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:03 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> > > > > > -oss - oss is a legacy audio interface that has been superseeded
> > > > > > by alsa in most current installs, a default use flag is no longer
> > > > > > needed
> > > > >
> > > > > There are *many* applications in the tree that do not use ALSA, but
> > > > > work only via the OSS emulation.  Removing this is a bad idea and
> > > > > it would definitely be blocked by the games team.  Probably half of
> > > > > the packages that I maintain require OSS capabilities.
> > > >
> > > > do we really need the USE flag though ?  i was under the impression
> > > > that you need to enable the OSS compat layer in the kernel and that's
> > > > enough ... and the USE flag doesnt affect kernel build options ...
> > >
> > > It depends on whether you use the kernel drivers or the alsa-driver
> > > package, I think.
> >
> > you dont use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels and the 2006.1 profiles are 2.6
> > based
>
> You can use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels.
I use alsa-driver with 2.6 kernels. I forget exactly why (this was almost two 
years ago), but I actually switched _away_ from the in-kernel-tree drivers to 
alsa-driver for some particular reason.

I have the oss useflag turned off, and then turned back on for alsa-driver in 
package.use.
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