Talk:Open Sound System (OSS)

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CMI878x

  • this seems to be a very special case, I just installed it and my devices came up straight away. All alsa devices are links to corresponding oss devices. So we might flag this section and the script for this soundcard only? Disi 22:03, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

bar overlay

  • I think it does replace ebuilds in portage and does keyword live ebuilds as unstable, e.g.

mesa-9999.ebuild. So when you add it, it will build mesa-9999 rather than mesa-8.1_rc1_pre20120724 Disi 13:18, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

actual [s]he states it himself: once done, merge all the goodies with: % emerge -aNDuv @world. Its not that people shouldn't use it, just a warning... Disi 13:21, 1 August 2012 (UTC)