Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 22:45:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), will@physics.purdue.edu, wyldephyre2@yahoo.com (Haikal Saadh), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CounterStrike Message-ID: <200011062245.PAA23717@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpem0qio6l.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Nov 05, 2000 01:44:02 PM
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> > > > One thing that does suck about games under FreeBSD is that you need to > > > > buy Open Sound System. (Unless you want to reinstall it every 30 days). > > > What are you talking about? `device pcm' works fine for me under > > > 4.1-STABLE and has always. > > Your device pcm has the FreeBSD sound card API. > > Bollocks. It implements the OSS API, or at least tries to. If > something doesn't work, submit a PR or, even better, patches, instead > of just bitching and spreading disinformation. It has been my experience that the FreeBSD drivers don't work for some shoot-em-up games. > > Most games require a specific sound card API. This API is supported > > natively in Linux, but FreeBSD does not support this API. To use > > this API, you must have third party (OSS) sound card drivers, or > > modify FreeBSD's API. 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. I suppose I ought to, though, but that would mean I'd have to reinstall the games that didn't work without OSS before, to make sure that I'm talking about the most recent code, in FreeBSD 4.1. Are you sure you don't have to run current for it to work with FreeBSD's native drivers? 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
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