“The first hurdle was cleared – Linux Mandrake successfully
booted on my Toshiba laptop. But I wanted to run my desktop at
something greater than 640×480 in 16 colors, and I wanted to make
use of my Yamaha sound system and (surprisingly good for their
time) speakers. So I knew I still had some work ahead of
me….”
“Now it was time to get the sound working. Having exhausted most
of my creativity on the display, I was at a loss as to what to do
about drivers until a friend suggested Open Sound System to me.
From their web page: “OSS is a set of device drivers that provide a
uniform API across all the major UNIX architectures….”
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