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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:20:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>
To:        Ron Echeverri <rone@B1FF.nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable
Message-ID:  <199810121920.MAA05306@board66.cruzers.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810121904.MAA15869@B1FF.nas.nasa.gov>
References:  <199810120454.VAA02154@board66.cruzers.com> <199810121904.MAA15869@B1FF.nas.nasa.gov>

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Ron Echeverri writes:
 > David Kulp writes:
 >   For the record, the linux rvplayer v5 only works if you have the pcm
 >   sound driver (instead of voxware) installed.
 >   I couldn't get rvplayer to work with voxware and a ktrace showed that
 >   it was failing on an ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_GETCAPS call.  Donald Maddox
 >   found that this ioctl is missing from the voxware code in -stable, but
 >   is present in the pcm code.  3.0 does not have this problem.
 >   
 > Possibly dumb question: would it work with 4Front's OSS?
 >   

My experience was that OSS consistently froze up my whole "stable"
system.  I had to reset the machine.  I'd never experienced such a
thing, but I guess that's what you get from problematic kernel code.

Others have tesitified that OSS doesn't work on 3.0 at all.

-d

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