From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Nov 7 5:15:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D358B37B4C5 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 05:15:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA06856; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 06:12:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAcBa4qn; Tue Nov 7 06:12:03 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA17650; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 06:15:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011071315.GAA17650@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: CounterStrike To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:15:20 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), will@physics.purdue.edu, wyldephyre2@yahoo.com (Haikal Saadh), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Nov 07, 2000 11:12:17 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Ah. > > > > 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. I'm sure it wasn't Cameron who was upset; I just assumed that since the person sent back a belligerant note, that I must have insulted his personal code by asking the question. I'll try to find the original I sent, and the response, but I'll only be able to paraphrase the response, as it was not sent to the same list, but was sent as private email. It's not a big priority for me to do this, but I will give it some effort. > > 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. What about -RELEASE? That's typically what I run. Unfortunately, the 4.1.1 stuff is not very stable on my Multia, and I tend to stick with the same release everywhere I can. The particular machine I'm typing this from is an SMP box, and I haven''t moved to SMPng, so 4.1 is my cross machine platform of choice right now. I don't even care very much about the issue, since I only loaded some games at one point in time to impress my dad. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message