On 11/24/06, Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org> wrote:

> So please try it and tell us if awacs causes any kind of problems on
> your hardware.

It appears not to interfere with anything.  Relevant portion of dmesg:
audio0 at awacs0: full duplex

> And about sound in KDE - did you set 'threaded OSS' as audio system? If
> you did try just OSS.

I tried every setting.  Still the same white noise.