OS: Fedora Core 3
KERNEL: 2.6-10.1.737_FC3
SOUND CARD: Creative Labs Live! EMU10k1 - Driver=snd-emu10k1

PROBLEM: When typing dmesg, the following concern appears.

application sox uses obsolete OSS audio interface
application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface

I'm unable to play midi sounds or the sort and also OSS stuff. I'm not very concerned as regular audio works but was wondering if I should be concerned with the message as stated above about the obsolete audio interface.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks

OSS stands for Open Sound System, and is the interface to which sound drivers were once written to conform.

ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) replaces OSS, and allows more flexibility than OSS.

OSS will be removed from the kernel in some future version, probably either 2.8 or 3.0. But it sounds like you should be using the OSS compatibility layer built into ALSA, which will probably stick around for a while yet.

sox is a sound-processing utility, and it's a little worrying that it's not upgraded to ALSA yet. Firefox is a web browser, and it can probably use other sound systems anyway.

I shouldn't be too concerned because by the time you've upgraded your kernel that far, you will (hopefully) have upgraded sox and firefox along with it.

Being unable to play MIDI sounds is a driver issue; you may simply not be loading the driver for your MIDI chipset. This tends to be hard to autodetect, so it often has to be set explicitly.

I guess I need to try and do some more investigating as my real issue now that I've investigated further is aRts. For some reason, (I guess KDE uses this by default), whenever I play audio CD's, aRts is used so the Also mixer settings are void. CAn't crank it up too far without distortion because I have no way of adjusting hte bass and treble ranges and the 3D stuff.

From what your saying, should the updated kernel have resolved this? Can't understand why Fedora Core 3 given the info you provided has this slop remaining.

How would I go about making the changes to get everything to use the Also setups?
How can I make adjustments to aRts?

Thanks
Tony