Re: Soundblaster problem

Bernd Paysan (bernd.paysan@gmx.de)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:24:01 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Bernd Paysan wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've some problems with recent experimental kernels and sound. Playing
> audio stops ways before the end of the audio file is reached. It seems
> that closing the file immediately stops playing (even if there are some
> kilobytes in the buffer). It happens somewhere between 2.1.103 and
> 2.1.119. The behavior is ok for nonblocking files, but for normal
> (blocking) files it's not ok. The Enlightenment sound deamon esd seems to
> have a lot of problems with the new behaviour, too.

I hate to reply to myself, but the problem turned out that my PnP BIOS
(influenced by the moon phase) silently changed the printer IRQ to that of
the SB card, and that this interrupt conflict caused the problems. There
is no problem in Linux itself (except that I don't know how a deactivated
printer can raise IRQs).

Bernd Paysan
"Late answers are wrong answers!"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/

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