On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > There seems to be an OSS compatibility problem with the alsa 5.8 drivers > > for soundBlaster live. I'm running Slackware 7.1 under the 2.2.16 kernel. > > > > This cause a curious problem with viavoice where there was a short burst > > of speech and then silence. > > > I have the same problem. I run Slackware 7.1 and the 2.4.3 kernel. > When I use Alsa, viavoice stops after a few moments and the program > is still in memory. I see it in the ps list. > I want to use Alsa, because the Alsa driver offers sequencer for the > midi port on the SBLive. I had similar problems with other applications and they have now been fixed; those fixes should be there in the next beta release of alsa, or if you can't wait just retrieve the latest cvs export. I hope it will fix your problems. By the way, has anybody ever gotten viavoice to work under Debian unstable? > > Regards, > > Jos. > > -- > > ------------------------------- > Jos Lemmens > The Netherlands > E-mail: jos@jlemmens.nl > Homepage: www.jlemmens.nl > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list