[ltp] Enabling OSS compatibility with ALSA

[Matt Graham]

On Monday 08 January 2007 12:32, after a long battle with technology, 
Mendel Cooper wrote:
> Fedora Core seems to automatically enable OSS backward compatibility
> mode with ALSA sound. Mandriva 2007 doesn't.  If you have to do this 
> manually, the trick is to do a "modprobe sound" as root.

The ALSA module that provides OSS combatability is called snd_pcm_oss , 
not sound.  sound was the base OSS sound module, much like snd is the 
base ALSA sound module.

> You need OSS compatibility for some older apps

Aye.  IMHO, if snd_pcm_oss hasn't been modprobed by the ALSA init 
scripts, the distro people screwed up.  The setting to control whether 
snd_pcm_oss is modprobed or not is ENABLE_OSS_EMUL="yes" 
in /etc/conf.d/alsasound in Gentoo, YDistroWillV.  HTH,

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