Re: Soundblaster? (and oss comments)

[Tristan Colgate <colgate spods dcs kcl ac uk>]

Hi,

  I had some troubles with OSS on my system, the driver kept giving a
floating point error after a few seconds.

  I now use the Alsa drivers which work pretty well. XMame and Quake dont
run, but everything else seems fine. The alsa guys are also actively
supporting the alpha platform, I heard a rumour that 4Front were not
maintaing there alpha driver, last time I looked there was no driver for
the latest stable kernel release.

Tristan 'Minty' Colgate

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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Jonathan L Dubois wrote:

> 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.  
> 
> 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.
> 
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