<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div>I believe what broke VLC from being able to read /dev/dsp is this new kernel option:
<br><br>CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS=y<br><br>If you disable this option, the ALSA's OSS PCM API will not support conversion of channels, formats and rates. It will behave like most of new OSS/Free drivers in
2.4/2.6 kernels.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Unselecting this option in the new kernel did not fix the problem. It seems there is nothing I can change in the kernel config to fix this.<br><br>BR. <br></div>
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