RE: [MLUG] soundcard support

[Phoebe Kempe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Actually, I discovered it isn't the driver. It is
something truly goofy with wmrack (that would be too
long and not worth explaining :-). But, I do need to
upgrade my kernel for ioctl support. Yeah!!! Can't
wait to be playing my DVDs!!!

--Phoebe

--- "Spurling, Shannon " <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Alan Cox, and the good people who maintain the sound
> card driver have done
> an excelent job. My Hercules Game Theater XP is now
> practicly fully
> supported in the 2.4.5 kernel on up. There are still
> some things with the
> mixer that aren't quite right, but other than that,
> the kernel sound driver
> continues to improveall the time. I highly encourage
> any one having sound
> issues to upgrade. There is one strange thing
> though. Between 2.2 and 2.4,
> the module directory structure has changed. I have
> not seen any eligant way
> to compensate for it either, other than adding a lot
> of path statements.
> 
> Just My 2 cents
> 
> Shannon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Monroe
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Sent: 7/31/01 8:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] soundcard support 
> 
> You really should upgrade. I had lots of problems
> with my AWE 64
> soundcard
> with kernel 2.2.* and I have no problems with 2.4.3,
> mostly because of
> the
> added plug-in-play support. You have a PCI so it
> might not make as much
> a
> difference.
> 
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Phoebe Kempe wrote:
> 
> > Hey everyone,
> > 
> > I'm running Slackware 7.0, Linux 2.2.13 (need to
> > upgrade :-) and noticed I'm experiencing some
> sound
> > card driver anomalies. I had to edit
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to add a custom modprob line
> for
> > Soundblaster PCI128. The driver loads fine on
> boot. I
> > can listen to John Lee Hooker, etc... However, I
> > noticed that after a period of inactivity the
> driver
> > appears to be dropped upon attempting to resume
> use
> > (using wmrack). Killing and restarting wmrack
> makes no
> > difference.
> > 
> > Any ideas as to why this might be occuring or how
> to
> > resolve it? It obviously isn't an irq conflict.
> > Otherwise, it shouldn't work at all.
> > 
> > Here's the modprob line from rc.modules just for
> shits
> > and giggles:
> > 
> > /sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1
> mpu_io=0x330 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Phoebe
> 
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