From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 5 4:44:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2B837B4CF for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 04:44:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA94607; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:44:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Terry Lambert Cc: will@physics.purdue.edu, wyldephyre2@yahoo.com (Haikal Saadh), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CounterStrike References: <200011032323.QAA15469@usr08.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 05 Nov 2000 13:44:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:23:34 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: > > > 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. Bollocks. It implements the OSS API, or at least tries to. If something doesn't work, submit a PR or, even better, patches, instead of just bitching and spreading disinformation. > 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. Not true. Have you even talked to Cameron about this? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message