OSS driver on current

Joel Dahl joel at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 12 09:46:25 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 17:01 +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > Please can you tell me if the OSS driver is running on current?
> > i installed and tried it, and when running osstest the computer locks
> > up playing an infinite loop of near 1/2 second; same behaviour playing
> > any sound files.
> 
> before I test the latest OSS driver (build 1008) on my
> 6.2-RELEASE-p8 / SB Live (which will be tonight), I have
> some questions:
> 
> Are there any plans to integrate the "good bits" of the now-open
> OSS code into the FreeBSD tree? 

No.  OSS is CDDL/GPL.

> Are there gonna be drivers for the
> good-but-yet-unsupported cards (MAudio, Envy)?

We already have drivers for M-Audio and Envy in the FreeBSD source tree.
Check snd_envy24(4) and snd_envy24ht(4).

-- 
Joel



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