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It's not usually a big deal, getting sound working in Linux or BSD. In my case, however, my laptop's internal sound module is dead, and I've substituted a USB sound module from DealExtreme.com that costs about $2. It works, but it can be hard to get a given distribution to pipe the sound there rather than to the dead internal sound system. I installed the OSS app in Tiny Core, ran osstest in a terminal, and the app proceeded to send sound to both of my sound modules. When it got around to the one that is working, I heard some lovely piano music.

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