Package: oss-compat (7)

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Debian Games Team (QA Page, Mail Archive)
Stephen Kitt (QA Page)

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Open Sound System (OSS) compatibility package

This package ensures that Open Sound System support is provided in some way. On Linux, it enables the ALSA compatibility modules. On other kernels where OSS is the default interface, no action is taken.

The purpose of this package is for applications that only support OSS to depend on it, hence preventing common "/dev/dsp not found" errors that would confuse unexperienced users.

On Linux platforms a better approach nowadays is to use osspd, which emulates OSS devices using ALSA or PulseAudio.

Tags: System Administration: Configuration Tool, Role: Need an extra tag, Program, Purpose: Configuration

Packages providing oss-compat

osspd: OSS Proxy Daemon: Userland OSS emulation

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dep: kmod

tools for managing Linux kernel modules

sug: osspd

OSS Proxy Daemon: Userland OSS emulation

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Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
i386	5.3 kB	20.0 kB	[list of files]