Re: sound card as a module and audio CDs
In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.970812154206.228A-100000@terrapin.econ.queensu.ca>, w
rites:
>I am running debian hamm and have a sbwave32 as a module (no awe stuff,
>just compiled as sb16). When I unfortunately have to boot to win95 and
>then return to debian and play a cd using workman, I don't get any sound
>until I play a sound file through /dev/audio (i.e. it seems to me that
>something is not triggering kerneld to load the sound module). I guess I
>could write a simple little wrapper to insmod and rmmod and run workman
>inbetween, but I thought there may be a better way to go about this. Any
>ideas?
>
This is not limited to sb16. I experience the same problem running with
a GUS Extreme and the commercial OSS software.
Following Colin Telmer's hint, I found that the card would play CD's if
I played a midi file first (with playmidi -g).
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