[RLUG] noob question about OSS vs ALSA

James Washer washer at trlp.com
Tue Jan 3 13:46:42 PST 2006



I warned you this was a noob question... How do I tell if a system is using ALSA vs OSS?

The system in question has all of the ALSA utils, including alsamixer, but lsmod shows several modules with oss in their names

 - jim

snd_intel8x0           36352  2 
snd_ac97_codec         87632  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            58400  1 
snd_mixer_oss          20608  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               102408  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              27144  1 snd_pcm
snd                    59336  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              11552  3 snd
snd_page_alloc         11912  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm



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