Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

[Félix Almeida <felix@originet.com.br>]

"Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" wrote:
> 
> Same here with an AWE 64 value.

  Hi Paulo! How are you? It's good to hear from you again.

> 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.

  Hmm... I don't think so. I do not load the sound driver at boot time
and it makes this noise too. My sound driver is compiled as a kernel
module that is loaded just when needed (I set the things up using those
pre-install/post-install directives in /etc/modules-conf).

  Probably this noise is heard just at the first time the driver is
loaded after turning on the system. No, I didn't any test at all, it is
just a speculation. :-)

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

  I'm not sure, therefore I won't try to explain it, but I think that
the ALSA project will prevail... Anyway, I use the OSS (but I bet that
the AWE64 works with ALSA driver too).

> Thanks,
> Paulo


See you.
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Félix Almeida   <felix@originet.com.br>