recommended Alsa version for an AWE64?

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Adam. Did you try rc3? Or any of the 'rc' versions? Also, what modules
did you have loaded Did you have snd-mixer-oss loaded (if using rc3)?

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> At 09:53 AM 10/16/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Well, with the2.4 kernels you aren't supposed to have to use isapnp
> >tools.
>
> I wasn't.  I'm using the native ISAPNP support.  So far, Alsa has given
> extremely mixed results.  As I stated, I had to go back to beta 12.  Some
> sounds sound better than with the stock drivers and some have a loud pop or
> squeal at the end.  Next, the whole thing about muting all channels by
> default is absolutely insane.  I had my /etc/modules.conf set up to
> auto-load Alsa and after a short time, the modules unload and when they
> reload, everything is muted again.  I got around this by manually loading
> the modules in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules so that they stay in memory.  I'll
> probably leave it that way anyway as it's faster.  Anyway, all this has
> been a let down when it comes to Speak Freely.  I've tried both the stock
> 7.2 and the CVS version and had very unsatisfying results.  Both versions
> work fine in half duplex, but I may as well use the stock drivers if I have
> to use half duplex.  When trying full duplex, a person reported that I was
> sending dead carrier.  Further testing with an echo-back server reveals
> that what is happening is that I send out a long period of silence then
> audio.  Finally, it is as if the last packet gets held up until I close the
> connection.  When I kill sfspeaker, I will get a burst of sound like the
> last part of a word and then all sounds I play will play about half speed
> with a horrible clicking over the top.  It's like the old APH tape
> recorders that claimed to let you adjust the speed and keep the pitch
> sounding the same.  They produced a very similar sound.  In other words,
> Speak Freely is messing up Alsa.  I've tried every combination from the
> default flags to the -DLINUX_SMALL_BUFFER flag and removing the
> -DAUDIO_BLOCKING flag which produced noise instead.  With the stock driver,
> I could sort of get full duplex with the sflaunch front-end, but after a
> few minutes, incoming audio would start breaking up and get progressively
> worse until becoming unusable.  Sflaunch doesn't seem to work at all with
> Alsa most of the time.  Also, with the stock drivers, I got a log of
> recording overruns even when I wasn't talking.  The bottom line is I've
> never gotten satisfactory performance from the Unix/Linux version of Speak
> Freely.  I thought Alsa would be the solution, but I'm just about to go
> back to the stock driver and live with half duplex.  If anybody has
> actually gotten Speak Freely working with an AW64 in full duplex mode,
> regardless of what drivers they used, I'd like to hear about it!
>
>
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