[svlug] Flash Player 9 on OSS?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

John Conover wrote:

> I have a 2.4 kernel. Is there any way to get Flash Player 9 to play on
> OSS?

According to the system requirements page[1], no:

"Only Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is supported (OSS/ESD 
will not play audio; audio will silently fail.)"

While there's an emulation layer in ALSA to support apps that use the 
OSS API, I'm not aware of anything for the reverse.

The only option I can think of is to install ALSA -- there's an 
out-of-kernel package that at least used to work on 2.4 kernels. 
(Actually, I thought ALSA was included in-kernel in 2.4 as well, but my 
memory could be stuffy.)  You can compile in support for the OSS 
emulation so you won't have to change any of your other applications.

	-brian

[1] http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/