Hi Tobias, On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 01:06:41AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote: > Hi Sylvain, > > the plugin is not a dependency, because it's not required to get sound. > If it's not installed, OSS is used. I just tested that (on jessie) and I > had to manually load the kernel module snd-pcm-oss to make that work on > Linux. No idea why. I also tested an unrelated program (higan) with OSS > and that also required loading the kernel module manually. So the > problem seems to be that OSS does not work out of the box.
Thanks for the info. AFAIK desktops tend to use PulseAudio/Alsa or plain Alsa rather than OSS, so it may make sense to be sure the Alsa plugin is available. I would also suggest writing something on the standard output when neither Alsa nor OSS can be properly initialized, WDYT? Cheers! Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
