I think Ubuntu is set by default to use pulse audio driver. How do I change to OSS? Some softwares that I am using only allow this type of sound driver to use corectly the sound system. Thank you for any advice.
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Ubuntu has deprecated OSS support - the kernel no longer supports OSS devices.
If you're considering using OSS4, you should probably use another Linux distro like Arch Linux
For legacy apps that insist on using a OSS device, you should look at using padsp
which is the pulseaudio wrapper for OSS:
If application foo needs to use OSS devices, simply run: padsp foo
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It will emulate /dev/dsp and related devices, and redirect data between foo and these devices to PulseAudio.
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1If that application has only support for oss and nothing else, then you could try running via
padsp eclient
or similar. Otherwise, you may have to dual boot with archlinux to play that game :(– fossfreedom ♦Nov 13, 2011 at 22:16 -