Hi! > ac97 driver for dos: > http://schneegans.de/computer/dos-soundtreiber/
This page has 2 drivers: - Creative SoundBlaster SB PCI64 works with ES1370 drivers linked there - VIA onboard AC97 chipset supports Adlib/OPL3 with VIAFMTSR linked there Problem with this: Many cards from "short after ISA bus" are PCI with perfectly working Adlib/OPL3 hardware, for example CMedia or ForteMedia FM801 chips. This however does not give you SB16 DSP, and those chips used workarounds which stopped to work on newer mainboards such as PCIe boards. The VIA chipset has hardware which is close to SB16, and you can enable something in the BIOS (!) to activate it. There is also some small VIAAUDIO "driver" but this only switches off the mute and turns up the volume setting. However, the VIA chipset has no Adlib, so the VIAFMTSR simulates it... For similar reasons, SB Live and SB PCI soundcards even simulate everything! Nice thing is they work on every mainboard, bad thing is they need EMM386 and not all games can co-exist with the simulator. Last but not least, the schneegans page will not help you for generic AC97. You might be lucky and find some SBLive / SBPCI family soundcard which can be connected to your PC. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
