Recently I got a new motherboard (Gigabyte GA7-VAX) replacing previous MB (also a Gigabyte, slightly older model), and am using an SBlive 5.1 (sys is 1Gb pc2700, athlon xp2100+). All boards moved from old MB to new MB, except for one network card which wasn't needed as the new MB has one built in. Built-in sound on both MB's is disabled.
My wife is a musician/composer and I have several large sound fonts which she had been using on this box -- two of them are over 100-107 MB in size. Prior to the swap of MB's, these each loaded (not both at once, of course) with no trouble. Now attempting to load either locks up the card and eventually the system. 6-7 MB or so is the largest sound font which can now load. (sound fonts are loaded using sfxload). Sometimes attempting to load a larger sound font will _not_ lock up the system, but in those cases, midi sounds cannot be played (no audio output). _EVERYTHING_ else on this box works without any problems (or at least works with exactly the same problems as they did before the swap of MB's). I literally swapped boards from old system to new, along with disks. Literally same OS, etc., the only difference being differnt USB on the MB's, etc. (I wanted to add 8x agp card capability for some graphics programming which I do so had to change MB's). Kernel, alsa, etc., versions: Kernel: kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0 at first then switched to kernel-2.4.18-24.8.0 -- also tried re-installing kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0 with no success on the sound problem. Alsa: Originally was using the 0.9.0-fr0.rc7.1 packages -- (7.2 gave me build problems so I stuck with rc7.1); someone suggested that the 7.1 might be buggy so I am currently trying the 0.9.0-fr0rc6.2 drivers and libs. Nothing seems to help on this situation (OK, I *can* make it worse but cannot make it better): I still cannot load the large soundfonts which my wife needs on this machine. Any suggestions on what to look for or how to get around the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
