[LAU] Jack2 and OSS on Linux?

[Jack O'Quin]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Robert
Persson<halfbeinghalfthing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could anyone tell me whether there are plans to extend the OSS support
> in Jack2 from Solaris to Linux? I've just switched to OSS4 because ALSA
> doesn't support my laptop's on-board sound properly. However I now no
> longer have Jack.
>
> If it won't be possible in the near future to use OSS with Jack, might
> it be possible to continue using OSS on the internal audio device and
> ALSA on my USB audio interface? I'm guessing that it isn't, but you
> don't know till you ask.

OSS has been supported on Linux for years.  I doubt it get used very
much, so there could be bugs.  Did you try it (-d oss)?  What
happened?

Maybe your version of JACK was built without it.  It should build
automatically if the OSS interface header is available.
-- 
 joq