Thanks.  That did the trick.  The oss drivers still don't support my
Neomagic nm2283 chip in my Dell Inspiron 3500  in any more fancy way than
the standard  sbpro driver in the NetBSD distribution, but at least I got
through the ncurses problem.  Now, if I could just get stereo out of the
sbpro emulation in the stupid Neomagic sound chip, I'd be happy.  Or, are
there any neomagic drivers for NetBSD
-Brian
On Sep 15,  2:22am, Thilo Manske wrote:
} Subject: Re: Open Sound System questions
} On Thu, Sep 14 2000 at 06:30:41 -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
} > 	Hello folks.  Has anyone used the open sound system from www.4front-tech.com
} > on their I386 systems?  When I download the package and try to run it, it
} > really wants to open /usr/share/terminfo/letter/terminal name in order to
} > give me a nice full screen interface.  NetBSD uses termcap and has no such
} > directory of terminal structures.  Does anyone have any ideas on how I can
} > make this program work without this set of files or can someone send me the
} > terminfo tree from a Linux machine?
} Install the ncurses package (if not already installed) and make
} /usr/share/terminfo a symlink to /usr/pkg/share/terminfo (or wherever you
} install your packages).
} 
} ncurses is in the devel category/directory. I guess you know the NetBSD
} package system already :-)
} 
} -- 
} Dies ist Thilos Unix Signature! Viel Spass damit.
>-- End of excerpt from Thilo Manske