Just take the $20-$35 and buy an inexpensive SB PCI soundcard. Those commercial OSS drivers are quirky as hell. They have yet to solve some problems for my OSS Yamaha driver. I don't believe they are interested in correcting a sync bug the happens when you watch mpeg files. They told me it was MpegTV's problem. MpegTV.com told me it was OSS's sound driver problem. So, avoid the potential headache and get that SB card which will almost set itself up and will actually work %100. Brent "olof.liungman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I'm new to the list this may be common knowledge, but here goes > anyway... > > If you can't find a driver for your soundcard, in my case ESS Maestro-3 on a > new Dell Inspiron laptop (Mandrake 7.0-2), check out OSS by 4Front > Technologies (www.opensound.com). I looked everywhere but not even ALSA (is > that what they're called?) supported this card. However, OSS did :). The > software's not free but its only $20 or so, and you can test it for free. It > says they don't compile explicitly for Mandrake, but it worked for me. It's > not an RPM but the install script solved everything for me, except it found > two cards so I had to remove one using the configure script (menu based, so > it was easy). The readme and install info are good and worth looking > through. You have to disable the kernel sound modules, but the install > script does that for you, if you let it. > > Cheers, > > Olof > > _______________________________________________ > Why pay for something you could get for free? > NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
