Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

["Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <rsilva@ime.usp.br>]

Same here with an AWE 64 value.

It happens when I use sfxload do load the midi table to the card at start
up. But this only happens at boot time, and not at very boot. The card works
perfectly well afterthat. I have this problem for more than a year now, so I
believe it goes back to the time I had kernel 2.0.xx in my machine.

A possible solution (that I never tried) would be not to call sfxload at boot
time and call it "by hand" when you need to play midi. I don't remember
hearing the noise if sfxload is called after the boot.

Hey, could anyone explain (or point me to an explanation) what is  the main
diference between ALSA and OSS sound drivers?

Thanks,

Paulo

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Paulo José da Silva e Silva <rsilva@ime.usp.br>
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva
Aluno de doutorado em Matemática Aplicada (Ph.D. Student in Applied Math.)
Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

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