[Bug 579300] Re: Please disable CONFIG_SOUND_OSS* and CONFIG_SND_*OSS*

[Steve Church]

Hey Mr. Chen,

Firstly, thanks for responding.  It's nice not to be ignored.  And thank
you for your hard work.  Open source software would not be worthwhile
without the efforts of people such as yourself.

Now.  Pulseaudio is not a solution.  Pulseaudio blows goats.  I've never
had it installed and heard things playing through my speakers at the
same time.  Pulse installed = speakers silent.  Pulse removed = speakers
speaking = rainbows, unicorns, daisies, porn and beer.  Now I'm not
opposed to reinstalling pulseaudio if I come across a howto with fewer
than 20 steps between apt-get and I hear noise.  Suggestions?

My point is that the unofficial resolutions to which you refer are not
mature enough yet to be considered worthy of production.  Until they
are, config_*_*OSS* should remain enabled.

Hell, there shouldn't even need to be a workaround in the first place!
It's not as if the hardware I have is uncommon or outdated.  It's
certainly neither fringe nor obsolete.  I have a pcHDTV HD5500 and a
Pinnacle PCTV HD 800i.  They're both less than 4 years old, and they're
both common.  Mythbuntu is an official Canonical project, right?  Is it
logical for the kernel on which Mythbuntu runs not to support hardware
which might likely be found in a Mythbuntu box?

Maturity, maturity, maturity.  It's an important concept.  OSS is old
and unmaintained, but it is mature.  It is reliable.  It works.  New
hardware is being sold that uses OSS.  Pulse, on the other hand... well,
Ctrl-F and search this page for "pulse."  Don't consider only my
opinion.

Truly, I can appreciate the need to, as you say, "clear out the audio
jungle."  But don't do it yet.  You've been planning to do this for 5
years.  What's the rush now?

Please.  Wait until workarounds are easier / more user friendly, or at
least better documented.  Ubuntu's supposed to be Linux for your
grandmother.  I wouldn't want my grandmother dealing with configuring
pulse in its current incarnation, though.

<3,
Steve

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Please disable CONFIG_SOUND_OSS* and CONFIG_SND_*OSS*
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579300
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