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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Dear Sindi,
>
> These are the results of 'less /proc/interrupts'
>
>         | CPU0 (*) |              |
> -----+-----------+--------+--------------
>      0 |    45977   | XT-PIC | timer
>      1 |        170   | XT-PIC | keyboard
>      2 |            0   | XT-PIC | cascade
>      3 |        100   | XT-PIC | serial    (modem on COM2)
>      4 |        904   | XT-PIC | serial    (mouse on COM1)
>      5 |            1   | XT-PIC | soundblaster

IRQ 5 is correct for your sound card.

>    13 |            1   | XT-PIC | fpu
>    14 |    89783   | XT-PIC | ide0
>    15 |            7   | XT-PIC | ide1
> NMI |            0   |        |
>
> (*) These numbers varied all the times the test was performed.
>
> I've downloaded 'workbone.tgz' from Slackware 4.0 but I'd forgotten to 'pkg'
> it...
>
> Now I have good sound quality for audio CDs, except for the fact of having
> only the "R" channel.
> "L" is muted somehow with a little "buzzing" in background (not only under
> BL3 but also under every other Linuxes I've tried).

Very odd.  Do you use the same speakers every time, and also with Windows?

> I think Windows uses some different proccess, because I can get both
> channels with it, but then the sound quality is not "that" bad - but just
> fair.
>
> So I suppose something in the SB card is out of order and I'll have to take
> a further look on it.
>
> Unhappily the most of my hardware came to me through donations and some
> peripherals are very old - others were dead.

We get our equipment the same way.  It is fun diagnosing problems but 
sometimes it would be nice if things just worked.

> I can say the sound (software) is OK and I have learnt a lot, thanks to you.

Many other people taught me what I learned, on this list.

> Since 'workbone' is a non-X application the menu becomes visually strange.
> Is there a way of working around it? ( Just for curiousity: This isn't so
> important after all ) .

Ctrl-Alt-F2 gets you a full-screen terminal to run it in, white on black.
I have never used it under X.  What does it look like?  Maybe you can 
design an rxvt (xterm) that looks better.


> Thanks for your kind attention.

Thank you.  Sindi

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