Ewan Dunbar wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jun 1999, S.Toms wrote:
George wrote:
Hello, I am going to install a SB 16 (not PnP) CT1770. Is there any advantage to using OSS by 4front versus the driver built into the Linux kernal?
Upgrading is easier and quicker as you own't have to compile a new kernel
And the sound drivers in kernel 2.2 produce dropouts. And some people's hardware (like mine, which is the same as yours) are not friendly with the driver; the driver has a bug still which makes it so that you *must* load sb as a module on this card, and rmmod it on shutdown. Otherwise, if you don't cold boot it, it freezes solid when it tries to load it again.
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
Adding to what S. Toms said - I just finished upgrading to 2.2.7 and took the OPL3-SA kernel sound option... The OSS sound from 4Front is easier to adjust and, after playing a few minutes of Holst - The planets, I would say 4Front sounds better. (I even activated the OSS wavetable in the kernel). But, I am going to leave my kernel sound in...
I'm using the kernel OPL3/SA2 driver myself, with the 2.2.9 kernel. I have noticed two problems and I'm canvassing for more information: 1) When playing midi files in kmidi, there are often 'dropouts' whenever I do something else that wants the CPU. I think this might be what Ewan means he is referring to dropouts. Is this a kmidi issue or a kernel 2.2 issue? Is it restricted to any particular version of kernel 2.2? 2) Frequently I lose sound altogether for a time. When this happens, I see the following message repeated in /var/log/messages whenever there is a request for some sound: kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Has anybody else seen this? Under what kernels? Does anybody have any ideas what might be causing it? Would both of these problems disappear under the 4/Front OSS sound drivers? -- rclark@virgosolutions.demon.co.uk Ralph Clark, Virgo Solutions Ltd (UK) __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ * Powerful * Flexible * Compatible * Reliable * / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / *Well Supported * Thousands of New Users Every Day* /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ The Cost Effective Choice - Linux Means Business! -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>