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Brooks Davis wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:37:05PM +0100, Matej wrote:
>  
>
>>Thanks Michael very much,
>>I quite got it - but I this has opened a few questions more to me: Without 
>>setting/installing
>>that OSS, (using some ICH driver for the nforce2 onboard audio card, only 
>>adding snd_ich_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf), I get some "OSS driver"
>>displayed in XMMS settings. What oss is this?
>>And another one - should I download the oss package from the 
>>http://www.4front-tech.com/ or is there any port/pkg in freebsd? I was 
>>looking but couldn't find it.
>>    
>>
>
>The FreeBSD sound system uses the OSS API (though a somewhat older
>version that that from 4front).  Please don't make the mistake of
>assuming that just because Linux failed to implement something well
>it is always bad.
>
>-- Brooks
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Thanks for the explanation