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Subject: RE:Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97
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>The sound device listed in Sony's specs says >ac97-compatible on board
>sound. I tried the open source sound drivers with no luck.

OSS is the sound server, not the sound card driver. It controls which programs have access to the sound card. You need to have the driver for the card loaded for OSS to work. 

Please read the manual. 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html

David