Re: Redhat 5.1 Sound,

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From: Ken Kham
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:00

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Apparently Redhat 5.1 did some "enhancements" to the Sound drivers
and "Stuffed it up". My SB16 was healthy on Slackwaare3.2. Since I
install Redhat5.1 on my system, the Sound quality is horrible.
I downloaded the Linux OSS/Free software and re-compile, and my 
system sound gets back its quality.
Ken
Paul Anderson wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to make the MIDI work on my Soundblaster AWE64 under Redhat 5.1.
> I have the AWE synth drivers from "Takashi Iwai (iwai@dragon.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)"
> which looks promising, but the RedHat kernel seems to ship with some sound patch
> which prevents these drivers from installing - the patch seems to remove some of the files
> associated with low-level sound support.
> 
> Does anybody know what the RedHat patch is for?
> Has anybody made this work?
> Any other tips about the Soundblaster & MIDI?
> 
> Thanks
> 
>         Paul
> 
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Subject: Re: Redhat 5.1 Sound,
Date: 1998/10/21
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