@Andy Whitcroft Yes that works fine thanks ! I had to modprobe as expected but yes, this is the first time since Ubuntu 10.04 I can play paintball2 (plus OSS sound) without recompiing the kernel .
i.e game now has access to /dev/dsp ----------------------------------------------------- morgan@morgan-MS-7758:~/games/paintball2$ ./paintball2 Paintball 2 -- Version 2.0 Execing configs/default.cfg. Console initialized. ------- Sound initialization ------- LoadLibrary("./snd_oss.so") Initializing OSS Sound System Buffer size: 65536 Stereo: 1 Samples: 32768 Samplepos: 0 Samplebits: 16 Submission_chunk: 1 Speed: 48000 Sound sampling rate: 48000 ----------------------------------------------------- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434842 Title: Due to lack of OSS kernel modules, have to recompile the kernel to enable sound in old games - aoss/padsp do not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1434842/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs