On Aug 11, 2004 at 14:59, Robert Locke in a soothing rage wrote: [...] >The VMWare list is saying that RedHat is looking to force everyone to >use ALSA implying that things are likely to get worse before they get >better.... > >Any thoughts or suggestions? ALSA is the default sound system for the 2.6 series kernel. Linus decreed that. If you want to use OSS, recompile your kernel to use it or get the ALSA OSS emulation layer and use that. RH is forcing anyone to use ALSA to the best of my knowledge. ALSA is the future, now ppl have to port their drivers to it. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. -- La Rochefoucauld 16:01:59 up 44 days, 9:16, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00