Hi Fred, tho I not Huber Mantel ;) Have you got the updated OSS for the new kernel? Could try that. Or rebuilt the kernel yet? and then try OSS? Fred: to lay low and speak easy I want to give you a site that helps compile an ISA SB 64/AWE/Gold what have you for Linux (step by step) <A HREF="http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt"><A HREF="http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt</A">http://cqi.com/~humbubba/linux/AWE-kernhelp.txt</A</A>> If OSS is broke :P (btw OSS has been broke or not quite working fully sence 5.0 SuSE for me) Steven Udell hettar@teleport.com sudell@teleport.com If isapnp.conf dumped so much info that you can't sort it out, and you have a SoundBlaster ISA/GOLD or AWE or such you can send me your isapnp.conf and I'll mod it to be readable/useable if you like. or I can send you mine, just I wont post it to this list, last time I sent a under 6K PPP script everyone nailed me. :P Fred A. Miller wrote:
Hubert Mantel wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 04, misc.word.corp wrote:
I have yet to receive my copy of 5.3, but I'm in shock about the apparent decision to deemphasize sound modules in favor of commercial OSS drivers.
[...]
Is there any hope for this situation?
Yes. One of the biggest problems with the current free sound driver is that it's a monolithic monster with compiled-in configuration which makes it almost impossible to provide a module that runs on almost any hardware.
Alan Cox has done a great job in modularizing the sound driver. The changes have even been backported for 2.0.x (see <A HREF="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/Sound"><A HREF="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/Sound</A">ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/Sound</A</A>>), but at the current point no distributor would like to make such a massive change to their kernels.
So if you are interested in this, just download the newest version from the directory (currently 2.0.34-modular-3.patch.gz, but applies with a non-important reject to 2.0.35 as well) and play with it. Alan almost planned to include the new driver with 2.0.36, but then reconsidered that the change is too massive.
So things will become better when 2.2.0 comes out.
Hubert, just please tell me how to get my commercial OSS driver to work for my SB AWE-64?
Fred
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