From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 3 15:23:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6405237B479 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:23:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA17103; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:20:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAgDaGdH; Fri Nov 3 16:20:23 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15469; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:23:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011032323.QAA15469@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: CounterStrike To: will@physics.purdue.edu Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:23:34 +0000 (GMT) Cc: wyldephyre2@yahoo.com (Haikal Saadh), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001103150828.Y27163@puck.firepipe.net> from "Will Andrews" at Nov 03, 2000 03:08:28 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > One thing that does suck about games under FreeBSD is that you need to > > buy Open Sound System. (Unless you want to reinstall it every 30 days). > > What are you talking about? `device pcm' works fine for me under > 4.1-STABLE and has always. Your device pcm has the FreeBSD sound card API. Most games require a specific sound card API. This API is supported natively in Linux, but FreeBSD does not support this API. To use this API, you must have third party (OSS) sound card drivers, or modify FreeBSD's API. When you suggest this to the sound driver people, they tend to get belligerant and talk about how their API is better than the Linux API. The OSS drivers are not free, they cost money, but you can use them in evaluation mode for 30 days at a pop, so if you want to play a game and not pay for the drivers, you have to reinstall them every 30 days (I personnaly call this "paying for the drivers in the most expensive way possible"). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message