Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:24:32PM -0400, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> 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.
Sure it's not when the midi stuff gets loaded? As I recall, that's
where it was for me. I fixed it by dropping the midi crap (if I want
midis, I'll use timidity anyway and midis suck anyway....).
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