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To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: OSS 
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Of course.  If I were reporting a bug, I would report all of
these things, and more.  Unfortunately, I haven't had time to
accumulate information appropriate to a bug report, so I
haven't reported this yet.  So I was simply providing my
point of vie that having a choice between the OSS driver and
the current VoxWare driver was not necessarily a bad thing.

I will be reporting a bug when I have more information.  Unfortunately,
the code that casuses it to manifest is in Modula-3, and I'm currently
only 98% convinced that it is a driver bug and not in my own code...

	Steven

> From:  Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
> Subject:  Re: OSS 
> Well, when posting reference to bugs with the sound driver
> we got start by :
> 	1. OS version
> 
> 	2. Sound Driver version
> 
> 	3. Sound Card
> 
> 	4. relevant sound configuration from the kernel config file
> 
> 	5. cat /dev/sndstat
> 
> 	6. Be a bit more descriptive about bug desription and if possible
> 	  provide code snippet which can reproduce the bug.
> 
> 
> 	Amancio
> 
> 
> >From The Desk Of grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU :
> > > From:  Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
> > > Subject:  Re: OSS 
> > > Well, 
> > > what this means is that we have to concentrate more on our existing
> > > sound driver. Set up a project and a few good hackers to volunteer
> > > to work on the sound driver. Probably, after this week I will
> > > kick off the project -- web page, cvs , etc... However I will need
> > > help ! So if no one volunteers then we are stuck with the existing
> > > driver and with the  OSS stuff.
> > 
> > > At least we got a choice.
> >   -------------------------
> > Exactly.  I would prefer a working sound driver with source, but
> > the current choices are apparently a non-working sound driver with source,
> > or a working (?) sound driver without source.  I am in the middle
> > of developing a sound-effects program, and I am stalled right now
> > because the driver apparently has a bug.  If I had the time, I'd
> > try to track down the driver problem, but I consider it worth $20
> > for someone else to get it to work.  (And if they don't get it working,
> > too bad for them -- the word would get around that they don't provide
> > a worthwhile product.)  When I upgrade to 2.2, I'll buy it.
> > 
> > Meanwhile, the source is available for people who want to go that
> > route.
> > 
> > 	Steven
> > 
> > > 
> > > 	Amancio
> > > 
> > > >From The Desk Of Tony Kimball :
> > > > 
> > > > Hmmm... it doesn't look good.  The 4Front pres., Dev Mazumdar, tells
> > > > me that they want $150,000.00 for a source license.  That just doesn't
> > > > seem worthwhile to me.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> 
>