From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 25 18:10:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5596B37B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:10:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001026011019.LXVP3598.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:10:19 -0700 Message-ID: <39F784B9.8C4B34EA@home.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:11:21 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: Heiko Recktenwald , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Story with OSS anyone ? References: <007b01c03e21$72524110$837e03cb@dougy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The new kernel support for ESS Solo works better than the OSS version. No clicking! And contrary to their claims, adding just one line to the kernel config file and compiling is much less work than the clunky payware install and crypto key upgrade. I also have an OpenBSD box, and went to all the trouble to try out the trial version of OSS. It turns out that the OSS driver for OpenBSD is incompatible with mpg123. Rob. Doug Young wrote: > > I had a mess around with OSS stuff in Solaris but was far from impressed > ... got infinitely better results from open source alternatives like > timidity & > Netscape plug-ins > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Heiko Recktenwald" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:35 AM > Subject: Story with OSS anyone ? > > > Hi, surprise, surprise, there is a commercial sounddriver for FreeBSD, > > that is loaded after booting, the demo gives 3 hours, then you have to > > soundoff;soundon and more music or whatever. This driver claims to support > > midi but I couldnt find any player on the CDs. Anyway, some sound, but > > also some rythmic clicking, like Kraftwerk, new music.. Has anybody ever > > experienced this ? The URL is www.opensound.com. > > > > H. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message