Open Sound System

Dev, thanks for the quick response. So, if I understand this correctly, the way FreeBSD does it with it's own OSS implementation is "non-standard", and when (and if) FreeBSD provides a 'standard' way of doing this, both you (and Nvidia graphics, relating to your link) will be able to use t...

I just installed the v4.0 OSS and am impressed by it's facilities... However, there is one major reason why I'm switching back to the default free/oss that is part of FreeBSD: From what it seems, I still need to specify a different dsp device for each sound source. In the default FreeBSD version, ev...

'tis the end of January, and OSS/FreeBSD 3.99.2a Build: 200501190416 still hasn't fixed the problem

And at least now I know it's not just me

Seems like the changes made to support the audigy2-value may be related. Please wait until Jan for a fix regards Dev Cheers Dev, that's all I wanted to know.. As long as the problem will be addressed sometime, I'm happy :D Incidently, I booted into windows (first time in a year) which i also have i...

*BUMP*

Hi, OSS worked fine with 5.2.1-RELEASE (and I kept it uptodate with the most recent drivers too, but only as far as OSS 3.99.1h) But on 5.3-RELEASE, and with the 3.99.1i driver, the sound in the rear speakers is VERY quiet. Using OSSXMIX the sound volume in the back speakers is full up. The only way...

Do other applications play sound ?

Are you using linux-mozilla, or freebsd mozilla with the linux-pluginwrapper ?

There really should be no difference, though, it should just be using /dev/dsp like everything else....

Note: Freebsd 5.3 is due out at the end of this month (august) As for the sound/acpi issue, have you tried contacting the ACPI people on the freebsd team with the output from various ACPI diagnostics? It's all detailed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html C...

I'd prefer not to have disabled ACPI, but it was the only way I could get 5.2.1 to boot

And I'd prefer to liase with the ACPI guys who seem pretty open at dealing with specific ACPI problems, I've just not got around to it yet...

I can't comment, as I have had to disable ACPI since 5.2 for other reasons

(ACPI worked with 5.1 for me, and so did oss)

Dev, the latest libintl.so in the FreeBSD ports is libintl.so.6

I 'fixed' the problem with ossxmix by installing /usr/ports/editors/bvi (a vi clone that does binary files), then:

bvi ossxmix

and changing the so.5 to so.6 in the binary.

Horrible, I know, but it works