> The Ugly: > > Wow, is the emu10k support really f*cked-up in the 7.2 kernels! It's > absolutely horrible! Besides all the popping and cracking, it may have > been responsable for some serious system instability. Here's the whole > story: > > When I first installed RH 7.2 on this system, I experienced total system > lock-ups every few hours. Very annoying! I then went through the entire > up2date process. No help. Then I installed the new kernel. Still > locking-up. At this point, I was about at the end of my rope and ready to > make the Windows partition the default in GRUB when I decided to hit > www.deja.news and search for a cure. After awhile, I discovered a post > describing a problem very similar to mine (same RH 7.2 system). His > solution: Turn off Gnome's sound support! > > Yes, Programs/Settings/Multimedia/Sound for Gnome. I couldn't believe this > was the problem, but I gave it a shot. That was the last lock-up I had, > and disable Gnome sound a few weeks ago. Now, I'm not sure if it's the bad > emu10k support or something else, but it definately solved the problem. > The odd thing is that the lockups didn't seem to have anything to do with > sound! Usually the freeze was when I was moving the mouse around or > typing. Very weird. > > I also use sound plenty with no lockups, I just have to stay away from the > Gnome sounds. Of course, I get tons of clicks and pops. Sometimes when I > start Soldier of Fortune or try to play a sound file, I get 100% > distortion. The weird thing is that XMMS _always_ works. That's how I > "reset" the sound card, play XMMS and then play SOF or play the sound file, > then they work. I mean, c'mon, a Soundblaster card isn't exactly a fringe > sound card! I've never seen such a bad feature regressions in a > non-experimental kernel before, but I guess this is the hallmark of the > entire 2.4.x series: bugs bugs bugs! Not entirely RH's fought, I just hope > then can fix this problem. > > I've got to agree about sound. Since this same driver supports alot of SB cards, it should be looked at. I have the same problems as you when start RtCW. I too, disabled sound support in KDE to fix some of my lockups. When an event happened in KDE and I was playing a game, that would usually mean a lockup or garbled sound. I have not just become Windows free, but Linux dependent with all the features and open source programs out there. And I think if the 3D gaming area improved (and it has greatly over the past year) then we would see a lot less dual-boots and a lot more new users.
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