Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.0.34pre breaks my system badly | From | SL Baur <> | Date | 17 May 1998 01:26:15 -0700 |
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>> How about including Takashi Iwai's driver for the Sound Blaster AWE 32? I >> can't vouch for the usability of the recent versions, but the current one >> is at: >> >> http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/awedrv-0.4.2d.tgz
I have a PNP AWE 64 Gold sound card. I've been using 0.4.2c for many months now. I've been using previous versions since last September on various 2.0 kernels. I listen to realaudio several hours a day on weekdays and I've *never* had a crash. It's good stuff, IMO.
The only problem I had was when Linux 2.0.32 managed to stay up more than a month and I started getting stuff like:
Mar 22 01:08:59 altair kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
I think that's due to the memory fragmentation problems folks have been working so hard to fix and shouldn't be held against the sound driver.
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> I've actually not touched sound at all, mostly because every new > version of OSS lite that Hannu has done for 2.0.x has had some > weird bugs. Initially I thought it must be Hannu but since I've > started hacking the sound code I feel a great deal of sympathy for > the man. SB clones are worse and weirder than NE2000 clones.
> If you want to do upgrade your sound its probably best to get both > the awedrv and the current OSS 3.8 for 2.0.x and see how they go for > you. If they work for your combination they are way better than the > 2.0 sound code. If not well diff -R ;)
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