Re: OSS Experiences ?

[Andrew Hobgood <chaos strange net>]

> Alpha (trial). It works fine EXCEPT sevel (totally unrelated) programs
> like latex, xosview just dump core (as soon as sound stops they run fine).

Ahhh... interesting.

> Does anyone have any simmilar experiences or can anyone hint by what this
> might be caused ?

I used to have the exact same sort of problem... any time I play PCM audio,
the machine gets all flaky.  Random apps start to segfault or float-point 
except, and sometimes, my box locks up hard (if I'm in X).  I reported it
to the OSS people, and had a thread going on here for a little while, but to
no avail.  The OSS people said "it's the same code as our x86 core, so it 
shouldn't matter" and people on this list hadn't seen the behavior.  I am
planning, however, to try the new OSS drivers (that just came out a week ago)
as soon as I can get to my console (I gotta' pick up my machine from its 
winter-vacation home now that I'm back at school).  I'll letcha' know.

> I have an LX-Board, 128 MB RAM, running Linux 5.2, self-compiled kernel
> (2.0.35 as provided on the Red-Hat-CD-ROM) with NE2000-Support but (for
> this test) excplicitly set no sound support. When trying the kernel-Sound
> I read the AWE-32-Howto but it mentions an patch which I (ok,
> unexperienced) was unable to apply (the special RedHat-Version of that
> patch referred to RedHat 5.0).

I'm on a PC164LX, 256MB RAM, RH5.1 based, 2.0.35 (from the gatekeeper source
archives) and no sound.  I'm using an AWE64 Gold, and PCM audio, as well as
/dev/sequencer traffic (ie, MIDIs or MODs under a player like xmp).  The 
behavior seems markedly worse when I have X running, but that could have
something to do with the resource utilization, or something.

Mind you, I haven't even tried the standard sound drivers 'cause I can never
get them to work at all, and I'd rather have broken audio than no audio at 
all. =]

/Andrew