> Apart from the irritative system beep is it possible to get (hear)
> some decent sound (wav-, mpg3-, aiff-files etc.) out of a
> StrongArmed RiscPC equipped with an EagleM2 sound card?
> 
Haven't managed to get anything more than the beep out of mine, some day I 
might look at the vidc sound code.  No idea about the EagleM2 care.

> Is there any possibility of getting MIDI in/out/thru to work
> with the same card?
> 
Haven't a clue

> If the above is possible, is there any usable software?
> 
Pass.

> 
> 
> I am having a little trouble in understanding some of the output
> from the top command. Can someone please enlighten me?
> 
> Example:
> 
> load averages:  1.65,  1.87,  1.49                                     11:29:17
> 32 processes:  1 running, 31 sleeping
> CPU states:  6.9% user,  2.5% nice, 37.9% system, 13.8% interrupt, 38.9% idle
> Memory: 8300K Act 7096K Inact 2488K Wired 11M Free 21M Swap 157M Swap free 
> 
> How do I interpret the fourth line of the top output?
> 
> Does it state that my processes use 8300K of which 7096K is paged in
> and 2488K is paged out?
> 
> I have 32MB (+ 2MB video RAM) physical memory. Is 21M unused?
> Why is there Inactive memory then?
> 

No, You have 
8.3MB Active memory (pages that were accessed in some recent 
	interval)
7.1MB Inactive memory (pages allocated, but not accessed in 
	some recent interval.  These are good candidates for
	writing to swap if memory starts to get tight)
2.5MB Wired down (I think these are pages which cannot be
	swapped out because they are involved in some form 
	of I/O activity -- there may be other reasons, or 
	I may be wrong on this one).
11MB  Free (not allocated to something).

The above comes to about 29MB, leaving ~3MB for the kernel and its data 
space.

Additionally, you have
21MB of swap space used (processes which have had pages moved out to disk)
157MB of unused swap.

The last two should sum to your total swap space.

> And what is Wired Memory?

Did I answer that above?


Richard