AWE64 ISA works great with alsa, at least alsa 0.5.7 from Woody. I'm actually running a sb16 AND the awe64 in the same computer. Only popping I hear is from power on, but that's unfortunately normal. I'm not using anything midi, though.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Félix Almeida wrote: > "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" wrote: > > > > Same here with an AWE 64 value. > > Hi Paulo! How are you? It's good to hear from you again. > > > It happens when I use sfxload do load the midi table to the card at start > > up. But this only happens at boot time, and not at very boot. The card works > > perfectly well afterthat. I have this problem for more than a year now, so I > > believe it goes back to the time I had kernel 2.0.xx in my machine. > > > > A possible solution (that I never tried) would be not to call sfxload at > > boot > > time and call it "by hand" when you need to play midi. I don't remember > > hearing the noise if sfxload is called after the boot. > > Hmm... I don't think so. I do not load the sound driver at boot time > and it makes this noise too. My sound driver is compiled as a kernel > module that is loaded just when needed (I set the things up using those > pre-install/post-install directives in /etc/modules-conf). > > Probably this noise is heard just at the first time the driver is > loaded after turning on the system. No, I didn't any test at all, it is > just a speculation. :-) > > > Hey, could anyone explain (or point me to an explanation) what is the main > > diference between ALSA and OSS sound drivers? > > I'm not sure, therefore I won't try to explain it, but I think that > the ALSA project will prevail... Anyway, I use the OSS (but I bet that > the AWE64 works with ALSA driver too). > > > Thanks, > > Paulo > > > See you. > -- > Félix Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
