OSS and ALSA

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:18:32 +0100, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

> on 21/01/2013 14:22 David Demelier said the following:
>> I mean audacious, not VLC
>>
>>
>> 2013/1/21 David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Don't enable OSS4 nor ALSA, VLC can run fine with FreeBSD kernel mixer
>>> support (that has a OSS compatibility support).
>>>
>>> Just use defaults, it will always work more when you use default  
>>> options.
>
> Are you sure?  And are you speaking about the latest version - 3.3.3 ?
>
> In that version, if neither ALSA nor OSS4 is selected then the only  
> output
> possible is FileWriter.  BTW, OSS4 is "On" by default, which is annoying  
> - why do
> I have install some external kernel code if we already have quite good  
> audio code.
>
> It seems that audacious has lost support for "normal OSS" and became  
> useless to
> me.  Maybe "SDL Output" plugin/option could help, I need to try that.

I'm a FreeBSD beginner and I noticed that I can forget my Linux knowledge  
for FreeBSD audio. It would be nice to get some valid information for  
FreeBSD 9.1 amd64. Google isn't very helpful.