oss free?

[px]

I have tried oss drivers from opensound.com... and after I installed the new drivers, it tells me that it will be working only for 3 hours, but I can order a full licence on their website... http://www.opensound.com/order.html... 35$... what the hell does it means? I think I will installed alsa, but in the kernel, isn't oss drivers in core installed? is this the same driver or what's the differences?
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[mmealman]

Ahh, looks like you installed the 4Front tech drivers. And yes they're commercial.

What's your soundcard?

If it isn't supported by Alsa then 4Front is a good alternative. About 5 years back I bought a driver from them and their tech support was always good.

I think Open Sound System in the kernel itself is open source, it's just that 4Front makes commercial drivers that plug into it. There are non-ALSA drivers that use OSS that are also open source.

[px]

I have an sblive, it works great with any driver I used... But I am a developper and I want to make some soft that needs sounds. I am checking every info on drivers, and I think I will develop with alsa libs... Oss is quite dark to understand and openal is a poor quality. Did anyone installed alsa 0.9 rc5 and tell me what means all the entries in mixer?
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Nous autres, mordus d'informatique, préférons par-dessus tout passer notre temps à bidouiller nos ordinateurs, plutôt que les utiliser pour faire quelque chose de productif. [Dave Barry]

[mmealman]

You can also use http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1/ with the soundblaster live. It works off of OSS and you can play with the source code.