Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

[Rick Younie <younie@home.com>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> >
> > I use gom to set the volume at boot time. 
> 
> I do too, but it comes way after the noise.
> 
> > It's been a couple years so I don't remember the details but I think there
> > was a problem with the out of the box setup.  
> 
> "out of box setup" of gom?  How so?

This is what I have.  I'm sure this isn't the proper way to do
it.  I've been meaning to go back and stockify my sound setup for
a long time but unfortunately I've never had a problem with it so
it stays on the list.

Your problem is the sound of symphony orchestra blowing full on,
volume at 11, right?  This used to happen here, but only sometimes.

$ cat /etc/init.d/fixsb
#!/bin/sh

# mute sound a little so no explosion
/usr/bin/gom -d/dev/mixer -l20

# config and install awe32 stuff
modprobe -a awe_wave
/usr/bin/sfxload /usr/lib/awe/sfbank/synthgs.sbk

This is S70fixsb.

gom is only in rcS.d/ as S99gom and has
-d/dev/mixer --mute-all
in its default config file.

And TkMixer gets loaded with X, but that's later.

If you can't shut the thing up, maybe post the relevant part of
your dmesg output.

HTH,
Rick