Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:06:57AM -0400, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Maciej Kalisiak hat gesagt: // Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
>
> > Has anyone experienced their AWE64 soundcard making a loud
> > clash/crash/explosion noise during bootup? Is there a fix?
> >
> > I'm using a mix of potato/woody, with a hand-rolled 2.2.16 kernel. The
> > problem was also present with previous kernels I think.
> >
> > Help! It's going to give me a heart attach one of these mornings... :)
>
> Just a wild guess: Could it be that you have esd installed an that esd makes
> this noise on start up? I sometimes get an explosion-like sound from my
> AWE, too, but I have normally disabled esd. And normally if I use esd, it
> just beeps, which is bad enough...
No, I don't run esound (although it is installed on my system). The noise
usually comes as the Sound Blaster module is getting loaded, just before the
joystick module, or somewhere near there.
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