On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Axalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
>
>
> >
> > Ah now thats handy info, in that case try
> > pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
> > in your conf.modules
>
> I'll check this one out, but again, i'm not sure how relevent it is to the
> SBLive - can't remember off the top of my head whether it uses DMA, and if
> it does (do all sound cards ??) what should i do if it uses two.
>
> Thankfully i still dual boot, so i can check all this stuff out in Windows.
>
> Martin.
Well if Creative did the driver right, dmabuf=1 turns on persistant dma
meaning once it has one it grabs on and won't let go so to speak.
I get the worlds nastiest sound without it, however mine are acompanyed
by debug info dumped to console with every jitter and pop.
Now would be a good time to mail creative and tell them to "free" the
source.
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Hoyt wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 4:57 PM
> > > Subject: [newbie] Yet another Sound Blaster problem
> > >
> > >
> > > > Okay folks,
> > > >
> > > > I'm getting hacked off with this now, so it's time for post. I have
> an
> > > > SBLive which was working perfectly under the basic Mandrake 6 install
> (ie
> > > > 2.2.9-19 kernel and basic esound + audio RPMS).
> > >
> > > Someone at my LUG meeting tonight speculated that in machines with large
> amounts of memory (64M), the dma channels are re-mapped and this can cause
> problems with sound cards. I don't know if the observation has merit or not.
> My sound problems stopped when I swapped my SB16 for and older ESS1688. (I
> have 128M.)
> > >
> > > Hoyt
> > >
> >
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