Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

[younie@home.com (Rick Younie)]

Maciej 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... :)

I use gom to set the volume at boot time.  It's been a couple years
so I don't remember the details but I think there was a problem with
the out of the box setup.  gom has to run before you load the
soundbank in your awe64 so you might need to tweak /etc/init.d/*
with update-rc.d

HTH,
Rick
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