From: Michael Dunsky <michael.dunsky@p4all.de>
To: "Paul G. Allen" <pgallen@randomlogic.com>
Cc: "Linux kernel developer's mailing list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sound issues with kernel 2.4.14 - 2.4.17
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:28:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C2B3E1D.1050309@p4all.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C2AA64C.2CD1AD6E@randomlogic.com>
Paul G. Allen wrote:
> Sound worked fine through kernel 2.4.9. Since I upgraded to 2.4.14, and
> now to 2.4.17 (I skipped 2.4.10 - 2.4.13) I have several games that are
> FUBAR, all sound related: Quake III Arena and Quake II both core dump
> initializing sound; Soldier of Fortune, Railroad Tycoon II, Sid Myers
> Alpha Centaury all make strange noises with no intelligable game sound.
> Tribes 2, Unreal Tournament, and Descent 3 all work fine. GNOME and
> Enlightenment sound work fine as well, as does xmms.
>
> I have a SB Live! OEM and have tried compiling with and without the MIDI
> module. The main thing is I am trying to do some game development and
> it's impossible when sound is FUBAR. Any ideas?
>
> I hate to go back to an earlier kernel as IDE did not work (for me) in
> the previous kernels.
>
> PGA
>
Hello!
I ran into a similar problem:
Upgraded from 2.4.5 to 2.4.14 and added some RAM (total 1GB now). When not using
HIHGMEM_4GB, ~180MB of the RAM was missing. With HIGHMEM_4GB enabled, sound
was totally trashed (I also had the segfaulting Quake3Arena).
The SBLive uses the "emu10k1"-driver - and the driver that came with 2.4.14 was
broken if used with "HIGHMEM" enabled. W/o this, the sound had no problems. Rui
Sousa made it working with HIGMEM enabled. (But sometimes, especially with very
little free RAM left the sound is still broken )
Have you tried the latest snapshot from opensource.creative.com ?
I've taken a look into the kernel-patches (I'm still at 2.4.14 - will upgrade to
2.4.17 when SGI's XFS is ready for thet kernel), and there were no
version-changes in the driver.
How to do it (very short):
Unzip and untar, cd into "emu10k1_<date>" and do "make && make install"
(maybe save the old from "/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/sound"
and "sound/emu10k1" before...) Remove your loaded "emu10k1" and "ac97_codec"
modules (don't forget this), load the new and test it.
There are some more nice features within Creatives "official" drivers (such as
bass/treble control)...
ciao
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-27 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-27 4:40 Sound issues with kernel 2.4.14 - 2.4.17 Paul G. Allen
2001-12-27 15:28 ` Michael Dunsky [this message]
2001-12-27 15:41 ` Paul G. Allen
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