From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 9 22:11:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA15767 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from INET-03-IMC.microsoft.com (mail3.microsoft.com [131.107.3.23]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15762 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by INET-03-IMC with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.8) id <24KWH855>; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:09:56 -0700 Message-ID: <88CE23A0B727D0118BB000805FD475240152BBDB@RED-81-MSG.dns.microsoft.com> From: Thomas Pfenning To: Denis DeLaRoca , Amancio Hasty Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: RAT release for FreeBSD Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:10:45 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.8) Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I installed OSS on a 2.2.1 release and the machine freezes within seconds using both a SB16 and a GUS PnP when I start vat. Has anyone managed to make this work yet? Cheers Thomas > -----Original Message----- > From: Denis DeLaRoca [SMTP:CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU] > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 1997 9:39 PM > To: Amancio Hasty > Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: RAT release for FreeBSD > > The WWW6 Conference this week in Santa Clara has been MBONE > transmitting > on occassion with redundancy. I contacted again the RAT development > people to ask them about the promised FreeBSD version. They > acknowledged > that it is in its infancy and using OSS for sound support... aim to > have > almost identical versions for Linux and FreeBSD. > > With RAT being locked into OSS, do we have to migrate the other audio > tools such as VAT to OSS as well? For the time being RAT is only re- > leased in binary form so there won't be much chance of rewriting its > sound driver interface. > > Is OSS the best sound driver option for FreeBSD now? > > -- Denis >