On Saturday, December 17, 2011 04:59:02 AM Folderol did opine: > I wonder if this is something really stupid like faulty memory, and it's > only that combination of hardware/software this hits the dodgy bits? > Not impossible, its been several months since I last booted into memtest, which found nothing in about 7 full passes. > This happened to me a while ago. Took me ages to work it out, especially > as memtest seemed to show no problems. > > As a matter of interest I have a 2496 card working on a dual core athlon > under an audio-fied debian squeeze. I use the MIDI and audio I/O and > also a USB MIDI unit. On the audio side, I have a total of 3 hardware > synths, a guitar and mic (into a little analogue mixer). I used to drool over the 2496, but then with my musical talents having been tested & found wanting some, (the school band needed a double b-flat player 54 years ago, so guess who got volunteered, besides, the double b-flat and I sing in the same key) so I settled on this Audigy2 Value, which considering its cost of about 70 bucks at the time, is an amazingly capable card, 24 bit it claims & unlike the 16 bit soundblaster, is a lot harder to run out of headroom with. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
