Michael Johnson wrote:
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
1. Sound is partially broken in 5.3, but if you use OSS (I have tried both 3.9x and 3.7x with complete success on an AWE32 pnp) you should be ok. If you uncomment sound in /etc/conf.modules you can use a modular kernel-based sound driver _BUT_ anything that uses /dev/dsp appears to be broken (no midi at all, most games use /dev/dsp so no games for the most part). mp3 and cd players all seem to work fine.
So that would mean no sound in Quake, and no desktop sounds either...(esound...etc) If this is true that is very much broken, and
No......I have desktop sounds aplenty here...using the commercial OSS driver.
would suck as I am rather fond of playing linux Quake and it's just not the same with no audio. Does anyone know anymore about this? It seems to
Sorry, I don't have Quake, so I can't tell you if there's sound with it or not.
me that 5.3 would have _had_ to have undergone pretesting and I am wondering how such a problem as a broken /dev/dsp could go by unnoticed. There would have been tons of complaints. For those of you with 5.3 (still waiting) can you endorse that /dev/dsp is broken? ( no offense I just would like more feedback).
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