Re: Soundblaster? (and oss comments)

[Pooh <pooh apoc sacredsoulrecords com>]

> 
> Well just to round things out...  I have had some trouble using oss --
> I've got a system based on redhat 5.0 but the oss distribution for later
> kernels seems to be dynamicly linked to a newer version of ncurses than I
> have -- when I tried to install the new ncurses it busted me up pretty
> good...  I manged to get around it by making a simlink to the older
> version and it worked fine.  

That's not really an OSS problem...Redhat all of a sudden started putting
the term stuff in the right place, broke everyone's programs who followed
the broken method...  a symlink fixes it.   And really, I wouldn't call that
much of a showstopper at all.

> 
> On the other hand I was able to get my sound card -- a SB ViBRA16X PnP --
> working using isapnp tools and compiling SB sound support as a module with
> a 2.1.x kernel without TOO much trouble (its easy to send the wrong values
> for DMA etc when initializing the module)  But overall I would have to
> admit that it was much more of a pain than OSS.  I just wanted sound AND a
> new kernel so I didnt have much choice.

Have you tried using the 2.0.x driver with 2.1.x?   I'm curious to see if
they'll run together....probably not..but.....



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