RE: Soundblaster? (and oss comments)

[Bob Segrest <Bob Segrest digital com>]

For what it is worth.....

The OSS installation now checks to see if you need the symbolic link.  If
you need it, the installation script tells you how to set it up and then
restart the OSS installation.

Bob Segrest                     


-----Original Message-----
From: Pooh [mailto:pooh@apoc.sacredsoulrecords.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 8:51 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Soundblaster? (and oss comments)


> 
> 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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