In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, w rites: >I am running debian hamm and have a sbwave32 as a module (no awe stuff, >just compiled as sb16). When I unfortunately have to boot to win95 and >then return to debian and play a cd using workman, I don't get any sound >until I play a sound file through /dev/audio (i.e. it seems to me that >something is not triggering kerneld to load the sound module). I guess I >could write a simple little wrapper to insmod and rmmod and run workman >inbetween, but I thought there may be a better way to go about this. Any >ideas? > This is not limited to sb16. I experience the same problem running with a GUS Extreme and the commercial OSS software.
Following Colin Telmer's hint, I found that the card would play CD's if I played a midi file first (with playmidi -g). -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
