Hello
I have some older programs that require OSS and /dev/dsp I have tried the pulseaudio trick with padsp but some work and some don't. I have also edited the /etc/modprobe/dist-oss-conf and uncommented the line that says
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss
This was supposed to work at least from what I have read to get the modules back but unfortunately it has not. I have no /dev/dsp at all or any oss modules when doing a lsmod. As you can see here
snd_emu10k1_synth 4968 0 snd_emux_synth 30789 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 4176 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_event 5815 1 snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul 5187 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq 46091 4 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul snd_emu10k1 128854 5 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi 18705 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec 95710 1 snd_emu10k1 ac97_bus 942 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 66969 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_device 5354 5 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_timer 18308 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7080 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 2950 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 5320 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd 52754 17 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 6460 1 snd
I have tried it with both pulseaudio installed and pulseaudio not installed and no go either way.
So my question is this, have the OSS modules and support been removed from the kernel like many other distros have done? If so I will have to rebuild the kernel to get this functionality back which really is no big deal, but was hoping someone would know something I do not, thanks in advance.