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To: exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto)
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> That would be nice if OSS worked.  Unfortunately, on my home machine
> it kernel panics when I touch MIDI, and is broken up and stuttery when
> using /dev/audio.  At work it just crashes on install.

Well, it is a BETA. :-) You should make sure to communicate this to
Hannu (or their support address) because according to him, he's having
a tough time reproducing some of these crashes.

> nobody should bother working on the sound support, singe there are
> these OSS people who will come down from above and save us.  I don't
> see that happening.

Not for at least 6 months, no, all I said was that we should use
their API if we decided to hack on our own.

					Jordan