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To: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
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Subject: Re: OSS/FreeBSD and Ensoniq Soundscape 
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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 22:18:39 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I got the OSS/FreeBSD drivers earlier this week, and have my SoundScape card
> "mostly" working.  The MIDI works flawlessly, but the wave support is verry
> unstable, it acts as if there is a DMA/IRQ conflict, but there is not...
> (I have tried both my "tuned" kernel and GENERIC, both have the same
> failure mode).  If anyone else has a SoundScape card, and would be willing
> to work with me on this, please let me know.

Needless to say, people should also (well, *first* actually :) report
these sorts of problems directly to 4-Front Technologies.  This *is* a
BETA version of OSS, after all, and if we're to see a stable version
of the technology for final release then we need to get those bug
reports in (yep, I've been sending in mine! :).

I may not have mentioned this, but in another 6 months or so we'll
also see a version of this technology released under the BSD copyright
for inclusion with the system.  It will be OSS/Lite, with support for
fewer of the high-end sound cards, but it will at least give us the
dynamically loadable sound driver we've always wanted.  For that and
other reasons, I'd like this driver to be shaken out a bit before
then. :-)

					Jordan