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Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later — patch squashes first bug report after 25 years
Pesky DMA issues have been causing unexpected noise and freezes.
A case in point is provided by Takashi Iwai’s recent pull request(h/t Phoron) to implement Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 fixes for the Linux 6.16-rc3 kernel. These kernel fixes may iron out annoying wrinkles in modern Linux desktops packing the Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA sound card. In a contrasting report from April, we noted mounting pressure from some Linux developers to phase out support for Intel’s i486 series and first-gen Pentium (1993) CPUs.
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