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FreeBSD 8.1 and OSS: system freezing

Hey all,

This is my first post and I'm a brand new unix user. Just to let ya know, my technical knowledge consists of windows and linux(Ubuntu, Fedora, Sabayon, and Arch Linux), so I'm not a complete NOOB at using unix-like OSes. Anyway, I installed FreeBSD 8.1 yesterday and everything is going well: system is updated, everything compiled from source just fine, and ports tree is updated. However, I am having a big problem with getting my sound to work. I know that my sound card(Creative x-fi extreme gamer) is not natively supported in unix, so I installed OSS. After I installed it I added oss_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf. When I restart my system, it freezes as soon as I log in to gnome: everytime! The system completely locks up. The only way I can use my system, is if I disable OSS. Furthermore, I've been using the system(with OSS disabled) for several hours now and it's not freezing at all. OSS has to be the problem.

That's why I need your help. I'm lovin FreeBSD, but I'd love to have some sound.
Please help me resolve this issue.

My PC specs:
Motherboard: ASUS Striker Extreme
CPU: Intel C2D
RAM: 6GB DDR2
GPU: Nvidia 9800GTX+
HDD: 1TB Western Digital
SoundCard: Creative X-FI Extreme Gamer

I appreciate your feedback,

Thanks,

Nathan
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LINPROCFS(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						      LINPROCFS(5)

NAME
linprocfs -- Linux process file system SYNOPSIS
linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 DESCRIPTION
The Linux process file system, or linprocfs, emulates a subset of Linux' process file system and is required for the complete operation of some Linux binaries. The linprocfs provides a two-level view of process space. At the highest level, processes themselves are named, according to their process ids in decimal, with no leading zeros. There is also a special node called self which always refers to the process making the lookup request. Each node is a directory containing several files: exe A reference to the vnode from which the process text was read. This can be used to gain access to the process' symbol table, or to start another copy of the process. mem The complete virtual memory image of the process. Only those addresses which exist in the process can be accessed. Reads and writes to this file modify the process. Writes to the text segment remain private to the process. Each node is owned by the process's user, and belongs to that user's primary group, except for the mem node, which belongs to the kmem group. FILES
/compat/linux/proc The normal mount point for the linprocfs. /compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo CPU vendor and model information in human-readable form. /compat/linux/proc/meminfo System memory information in human-readable form. /compat/linux/proc/pid A directory containing process information for process pid. /compat/linux/proc/self A directory containing process information for the current process. /compat/linux/proc/self/exe The executable image for the current process. /compat/linux/proc/self/mem The complete virtual address space of the current process. EXAMPLES
To mount a linprocfs file system on /compat/linux/proc: mount -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc SEE ALSO
mount(2), unmount(2), procfs(5), pseudofs(9) HISTORY
The linprocfs first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0. AUTHORS
The linprocfs was derived from procfs by Pierre Beyssac. This manual page was written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav, based on the procfs(5) manual page by Garrett Wollman. BSD
August 10, 1994 BSD