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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> I found an awesfx package for Slackware 10.0 at linuxpackages.
> I found source code for awesfx utils at a link from 
> http://members.tripod.de/iwai/awedrv-faq.html
> 
> The source code is .tar.bz2 and my download is corrupt.  The author 
> says he has switched to .tar.gz because .bz2 downloads have a 
> download problem. I can't find a .tar.gz source code package at 
> that site.
> 
> So you are not the only one with a .bz2 package that gets corrupted 
> on download.

I'm glad I got it fixed. LZMA isn't used by as many people, but it
produces much smaller files than bzip2 (my mplayer binary was 2.6 MB
with bzip2, but is now 2.1 MB with LZMA) and hasn't given me any
trouble yet.

bzip2 seems to produce files with character sequences that other
things (like web hosts) try to interpret or corrupt. gzip, at least,
is more sane (and is more common). I've seen plain old PK zip also
corrupt like bzip2 does, so I think it's a common problem if you're
not careful when you make compression algorithms.

> The site also has a lot of sound banks, some of which work with SB 
> Live (which I now have).
> 
> I was able to fix the IRQs on this computer so that standard SB16 
> settings work by:
> 1.  hwinfo - IRQs - 5 is taken by USB controller
> 2.  CMOS - disable USB
> 3.  Run SB16 diagnose - now all the standard settings work.   MPU 
> 330 instead of 330, IRQ 5 instead of 7, DMA 1 and 5 instead of 3 
> and 5.
> 
> Apparently the mystery hogger of DMA 0 and 1, and of IRQ 5, is USB.
> 4.  The card also works in linux with these settings.
> 5.  Reenable USB - sound still works with standard settings.
> 
> I tried this on a second computer of the same age (Tyan) and as 
> soon as I reenabled USB in CMOS, sound could no longer use IRQ 5, 
> so we left USB disabled and will enable it as needed (for camera 
> downloads?).
> Would a PCI sound card work here?  I noticed that as soon as I 
> freed up an IRQ (by disabling LPT1) the video card grabbed it, so 
> perhaps PCI cards just use whatever is available.

Yeah, PCI has Pnp built in, and it's not an awful kludge like it is
on ISA.

David

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