Tropez under 2.1.90

Matt Martin (mmartin@Calvin.SFC.Lehigh.Edu)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 01:52:27 -0500 (EST)


I have several questions about the modularized Tropez drivers (mad16,
ad1848, maui) under 2.1.90.

a) Random digital-sounding noise appears in very small bursts, often
like clicks, which roughly correlate with large video actions (focus
change, new window, virtual screen change, etc) under XF86. Is this a
known problem? FWIW It didn't happen under 2.1.58. (if not digital,
could some mixer channel be accidentally left open to pick up
ambient emi from other boards ? )

b) The firmware code (sound_firmware.c) appears to assume that the
card operating system microcode will be less than 64K. For the Maui,
the code is ~94K resulting in an "Invalid firmware" message when the
module is loaded. Is it safe to increase this number(seems to work),
or am I flirting with death by crossing some memory segment boundary ?

thanks,
Matt Martin

ver_linux:
Linux poobah 2.1.90 #9 Tue Mar 24 22:08:45 EST 1998 i586 unknown
Kernel modules found
Gnu C 2.7.2.3
Binutils 2.8.1.0.23
Linux C Library 5.4.44
Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.5
Linux C++ Library 27.2.8
Procps 1.2.6
Mount 2.7l
Net-tools 1.41
Kbd 0.94
Sh-utils 1.16

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