Hi

Is it possible to get oss working in 10.10 without compiling a kernel ?

Many games/apps I use work ONLY on oss...

As an example I have tried aoss + padsp in an attempt to get it to work...

aoss ./paintball2

LoadLibrary("./snd_oss.so")
/dev/dsp: Invalid argument
SNDDMA_Init: Could not mmap /dev/dsp.

- No sound

padsp is no better....


padsp ./paintball2

Paintball 2 -- Version 2.0
execing configs/config.cfg
Console initialized.

------- sound initialization -------
LoadLibrary("./snd_oss.so")
SNDDMA_Init: Sorry, but your soundcard doesn't support trigger or mmap. (00005100)


I can't load the alsa-oss modules as they are not the kernel.

I have tried the oss-compat package - but that doesn't work as it is missing the kernel modules (what the hell is the point in having that package...)

I know how to compile kernels (including from Ubuntu git source) but if I 'have' to in order to run many apps I think i'll just switch distro.