Hi Eric. On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:19:26 +0200 (MEST), Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi, if you have a motherboard with VIA VT82c686 southbridge and > AC97 and (!) SoundBlaster sound abilities, you might have noticed > that it is NOT enough to enable both AC97 and SB16 in the BIOS > CMOS setup. Programs act as if SB16 exists (unless you forget to > put a SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 or similar line into your autoexec), > but you will hear nothing. > Reason: For some stupid reason, the BIOS of your computer is missing > a small amount of code (less than 32 bytes) to unmute the card at > boot time. As a solution, VIA suggests loading a driver called VIAAUDIO.COM > .... which is small, but if you do not use Win3.x (real mode not affected) > you do not even need that small program to stay in RAM! I don't own such a motherboard, but once had to configure a machine of this kind for someone else. I installed the mentioned DOS VIA Audio driver, and DOS programs could find a Sound Blaster card, but I couldn't hear anything. There was no effect when I tried to change volume via standard SB mixer ports. Since I had no time to play with this, and since the machine was configured to work under Win98SE anyway, I gave up, but I'd still like to know a solution. Michal ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
