Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup
AWE64 ISA works great with alsa, at least alsa 0.5.7 from Woody. I'm
actually running a sb16 AND the awe64 in the same computer. Only popping I
hear is from power on, but that's unfortunately normal. I'm not using
anything midi, though.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Félix Almeida wrote:
> "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>
>
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