sven.ehret@gmx.de wrote:
And (I know this is the wrong list, but I'll make it short): on using xmms, I discovered that it has OSS sound drivers selected. They work fine with me, but don't they stop working after 30 days until you buy a registered version of this driver? I can select the arts driver and the visualizer field starts jerking around, but unheard; I can hear no sound. So: What's that with the default sound driver OSS and its "durability"? How can I change to arts drivers?
When Open Sound System went commercial, the GPLed version was forked into the kernel source tree. So the version in the kernel is not the same as the one you can buy, it is GPLed and it won't "expire". Having said that, SuSE's kernels use alsa, not OSS. alsa has an OSS emulation feature, and I suspect that is what xmms is using in your case. If you don't get any sound with the arts driver in xmms you should check the volume settings in kmix. Do you get sound in kde at all? Anders