On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Chris Reeves wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Yamaha PCI 128 XG. It sounds wonderful. When it's working. I tried using the demo OSS on the 6.1 CDs, and it set itself up with absolutely no trouble at all. No hand editing, nothing. I made a stupid mistake, though - I installed it on 25/09/99, and so I could only play with it for 6 days before the trial ran out at the end of the month. I had 6 days of sheer bliss.
I now have 2 options: use OSS/Free, use ALSA, or buy something. [snip]
modules? If not, will 6.3 have OSS with modules? Or am I doomed to paying 4Front directly?
Well, I certainly took a long time to ask a simple question! Sorry about that ;-)
It's great that 4Front provides FREE drivers for some of the cards. With the amount of work it takes to write a device driver for a soundcard without the specs it should be worth it to pay them for the commerical version of the driver. Just because Linux is open source don't expect everything to be free. This isn't a flame, just the fact that software is a business and the people at 4Front have to eat. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/