From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Nov 7 2:12:29 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 4263137B4D7 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 02:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA46883; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:12:18 +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: <200011062245.PAA23717@usr08.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Nov 2000 11:12:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Mon, 6 Nov 2000 22:45:40 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 26 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: > It has been my experience that the FreeBSD drivers don't work > for some shoot-em-up games. Some games have bugs that have audible manifestations on FreeBSD but not on Linux, probably because FreeBSD follows the spec instead of emulating OSS or Linux bug for bug. > > > 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? > I haven't. In that case, I wonder what basis you have for claiming the he grows belligerent when asked about OSS compatibility. > Are you sure you don't have to run current for it to work with > FreeBSD's native drivers? Pretty sure, as the -STABLE drivers are (mostly) in synch with the -CURRENT drivers. 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