Comment 52 for bug 579300

I get that OSS has been deprecated for quite some time. I get that deprecated features eventually disappear. I get that the only way developers will stop developing for OSS is for OSS no longer to exist; and likewise for hardware manufacturers' depending on OSS.

As an end user, I want my stuff to work, though. It's not my responsibility to sacrifice for the greater good. I'm not interested in policing the confusion in the spaghetti code of audio in Linux. I don't care about enforcing proper procedures in shaping the development of multimedia applications. That's not my role.

It's an intolerable situation. Mr. Chen has his motivations; I have mine. Unfortunately, the two are mutually exclusive.

So, like Christophe Van Reusel before me, I'm pursuing the only recourse left available. I'm henceforth giving up on Canonical's kernels. I compiled my own kernel with OSS modules re-enabled, and I will refuse upgrades until I no longer have analog cable television service.

For what it's worth, at first I tried Mr. Van Reusel's packaged kernel and headers. For some reason on my machine, dkms failed to compile the NVidia kernel stuff when I installed them. So I made my own. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1607546 for details. I have my .config attached there if anyone wants it.