Re: sound under 2.2.x
HI Seth,
I have nice sound with my AWE64 under OSS/Lite and ALSA, even with Wavetables :-)
Kernel 2.2.12, still SuSE6.1, ready to become Deb 2.1...
Greetings,
Ingo
Seth R Arnold wrote:
> (This is a sort-of unrelated email, so it gets its own thread. :)
>
> When I upgraded from 2.0.37 under SuSE to 2.2.6, I had to change a few
> things, but sound worked still. When 2.2.7 was released, I upgraded, and
> sound promptly broke. The prevailing wisdom at the time said 2.2.7 had some
> very drastic memory fragmentation issues, and the sound driver required
> larger chunks of memory than the fragmented memory could offer. (I saw a
> summary of this fragmentation, (and lack of, under 2.2.6) using the magic
> sysrq key..)
>
> Would someone please confirm or deny that the latest 2.2.x plays sounds
> quite nicely? And, would someone please confirm or deny that the latest
> 2.2.x no longer munges up filesystems? I would like to upgrade to 2.2.x (no
> real reason, it just seems cooler. :) but I would like to avoid the trouble
> I had the last time I did it. (I even followed the Changes suggestions for
> everything except NFS -- which I don't use..)
>
> Thanks. :)
>
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