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After a bit of frustration with the sound quality on Linux, I decided to go back to ground I’m more familiar with me: I installed FreeBSD 5.3 onto the laptop. Curiously enough, FreeBSD has a project similar to the aforementioned ndiswrapper: called Project Evil. Surprisingly (somewhat) to me, it appears to work as well. I’m typing this on the newly installed FreeBSD as we speak. Curiously enough, I am having some difficulty with the sound using FreeBSD as well, but I have yet to do real tests. I’ll keep you all posted on how it works out.

I’m mostly satisfied with running Fedora Core 3, but I’m having some difficulty getting rid of the crackly, popping sound that you heard in my last podcast. I’ve tried disabling apm, acpi, added no-hlt to the boot, disabled dma on the hard drive, and still the crackling badness remains. If anyone has any information which might be of help, try dropping dropping me an email.

lspci lists the sound controller as:

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)

/proc/asound/version contains:

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.6 (Sun Aug 15 07:17:53 2004 UTC).
Compiled on Nov 18 2004 for kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3.

I thank you for any help in advance, as do my listener(s).

Boing Boing showed the photo to the right of the Millau viaduct in France: the highest bridge ever constructed. Yet the more interesting fact to me was the satellite used to get that image: a box only 60cm x 60cm x 80xm named Proba.