Re: Sound Advice

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

Old age makes me lazy, I didn't carry device drivers over, nor did I 
compile the kernels. I just take the drivers that came with the kernel. 
I've never seen the kernel tainted message for the sound drivers, probably 
because I'm still using kernel drivers. There are compelling reasons for 
me to continue to use this card, there's not a lot out there spec'd like 
it.

herbie

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Don Parth wrote:

> Although I don't have any SB-AWE cards, the drivers for my ISA Creative SB 
> started throwing "kernel tainted" messages when I started using 2.6 kernels. 
> After some digging, it appears that the old drivers were unsupported, causing 
> the taint messages.  Sound would work, at least for my limited audio needs 
> under SuSE, but it seemed like random applications started to hang or crash. 
> I think that I went back to a 2.4 kernel, which stopped the hanging and 
> crashing.  Supported PCI cards on other machines did not have the kernel 
> tainted messages, and did not have the stability problems encountered with 
> the ISA SB board.   I eventually stopped using the ISA slot machine - the 
> disk got fried, and there wasn't a compelling reason to revive a 500 MHz 
> machine. 
> Check to see if your SB-AWE drivers are still supported on 2.6 kernels. 
> Sorry I can't help on recommending a cheap card with SPDIF.  Good luck!
>
> Don
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