Helllo, Chris! Here`s a workaround for your problem: create a file named "aud" with the following contents: ---8<--- date -s '1 year ago' soundon date -s '1 year' --->8--- And you can use OSS/"Free" for 1 year more... If you are a fan of media/sound/music-composing - run Windows98 instead - it has no any troubles with media. Thanks, Egor. -----Original Message----- From: root@bute.st-andrews.ac.uk [mailto:root@bute.st-andrews.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Dienstag, 26. Oktober 1999 22:16 To: SuSE Mailing List; egm@csie.nsys.by Subject: [SLE] Yamaha PCI 128 XG 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. I have had a look at www.linux.org.uk/OSS/ which is, as far as I know, the authoritative site on OSS/Free. It says that Yamaha PCI sound cards are unsupported because the specs haven't been released. I presume this means that I'm out of luck on the OSS/Free front, unless anyone knows a more up to date site. I had a look at the ALSA project, and found that they don't support the card either. That leaves me with the commercial OSS that works and sounds wonderful, but costs. After all that preamble, here's the question. I know that SuSE 6.x comes with a license for standard OSS, but standard OSS doesn't cover the PCI XG, it is supported in a seperate addon module. Which costs more. Does the SuSE 6.2 boxed set contain a licensed copy of OSS *INCLUDING* the separate add-on 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 ;-) Thanks in advance Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- 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/ -- 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/