RE: 2.2.13 and 2.2.12 sound card hangs

[Kurt_Ludwig student uml edu (Kurt Ludwig)]

I have to check the actual page where the original drivers come from and see
if they have updated ones... yes you are right this is getting
rediculous....
I went to the Alpha a few days back to play my music on cuz I was getting
VERY tired of my slow AMD K6 200MHz NT box. looks like I'll be on it for a
while still until this sound card issue is resolved. Unfortunately Linux
*STILL* isn't extremely multimedia friendly and by the looks of it, old
sound card support is getting worse.
2.2.5-22 (the default patched RH one) seems to be fine with sound BUT it has
a lot of other problems with it. An x86 server I admin has to be rebooted
every 2 weeks because it stops responding to telnet requests. It needs
*MAXIMUM* uptime so the CS students at the community college can telnet in
and work on their programs.
I noticed the same thing on my alpha here with that kernel.

I'm thinking it comes down to this:
each particular revision of the kernel has it's good and bad points. Some
things get better with the newer revisions and other things get worse, and
*hopefully* get fixed again. Makes it frustrating to push Linux to a
particular company/ college.

'just my 2 cents'

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Abene [mailto:phiber@radicalmedia.com]
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 7:10 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: 2.2.13 and 2.2.12 sound card hangs


I still don't get more than 2-3 days without hanging solid after heavy sound
usage (playing mame or mp3's).  This is with 2.2.9.  Anything later freezes
after a minute of using my SB16 ISA card.  I've also increased stability by
building 2.2.9 with gcc-2.7.2.3.  I still don't know what's special about
2.2.9
when it comes to sound/DMA/Saturn-I/O, but this is getting ridiculous.

-Mark

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