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Re: Load crash from speakers at startup



On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:55:13AM -0500, David Purton wrote:
> just recently my speakers have started making a load crash sound at
> startup around when the sound card is initialised.
> 
> It's an awe64 pnp isa card setup using sndconfig and isapnp.
> 
> I can't think of anything that could have caused this - I recompiled my
> kernel to include masqerading support, but apart from that not much has
> changed - and this shouldn't have affected sound - as the same comfig file
> was used.
> 
> I have no idea even where to start looking for whats going wrong.
> 
> if I unload the modules and then reload after the system has booted there
> is not load crash.
> 
> there doesn't seem to be anything satrange in any logs.
> 
> any ideas?

I had the very same thing happen to me a while back.  I narrowed it down to be
the SoundBlaster module loading; I guess it does some output test, and bootup
the volume levels are cranked up.  I wasn't able to get rid off it, until I
went to kernel 2.2.17, and the problem just disappeared...

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