HI Seth, I have nice sound with my AWE64 under OSS/Lite and ALSA, even with Wavetables :-) Kernel 2.2.12, still SuSE6.1, ready to become Deb 2.1...
Greetings, Ingo Seth R Arnold wrote: > (This is a sort-of unrelated email, so it gets its own thread. :) > > When I upgraded from 2.0.37 under SuSE to 2.2.6, I had to change a few > things, but sound worked still. When 2.2.7 was released, I upgraded, and > sound promptly broke. The prevailing wisdom at the time said 2.2.7 had some > very drastic memory fragmentation issues, and the sound driver required > larger chunks of memory than the fragmented memory could offer. (I saw a > summary of this fragmentation, (and lack of, under 2.2.6) using the magic > sysrq key..) > > Would someone please confirm or deny that the latest 2.2.x plays sounds > quite nicely? And, would someone please confirm or deny that the latest > 2.2.x no longer munges up filesystems? I would like to upgrade to 2.2.x (no > real reason, it just seems cooler. :) but I would like to avoid the trouble > I had the last time I did it. (I even followed the Changes suggestions for > everything except NFS -- which I don't use..) > > Thanks. :) > > -- > Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into > your ~/.signature to help me spread! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- I. Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inst. fuer Angew. Physik +49 251 83-33541 (fon) Correnstr. 2-4 +49 251 83-33513 (fax) D-48149 Muenster Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------
