Yes, you'll need assistance to enable your onboard sound card because you do that from the BIOS, and yes the steps will work on whichever platform window-eyes is running. At 10:04 AM 1/27/2006, you wrote: >Thanks Tim for the information. Now my next question is, do I need >sighted assistance to enable my on-board sound card? Also, will this >formula you outlined work in Win-98SE? > >On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:17:55 -0500 Tim Grady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: > > Certainly can, and much easier than JFW. After > > you enable your onboard soundcard, go to the > > sounds settings in control pannel and make your > > turtlebeach the default soundcard. Then go into > > the window-eyes control pannel and choose the > > select synthesizer option. Choose the > > synthesizer you want. Say it is SAPI5. Hit the > > tab key and you'll be in a list of SAPI5 engines > > to choose from. Hit the tab again and you should > > end up in a list of sound cards to choose > > from. The list of sound cards will always show > > up provided you have more than 1 sound card enabled. > > At 08:49 PM 1/26/2006, you wrote: > > >I am using Window Eyes 5.5, and not JFW. I don't suppose you know > > if this > > >can be acomplished in Win-eyes? > > > > > > > > >On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:50:54 -0500 "Dana S. Leslie" > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Josh and Matthew, > > > > > > > > If your using JAWS and Eloquence, there's an easier way to > > > > accomplish this, > > > > which does NOT require sighted assistance. > > > > > > > > In the JAWS program folder, find and open the jfw.ini file. Fine > > the > > > > section > > > > labeled > > > > [Synthesizers] In this section, you'll find the following lines, > > > > with the > > > > exception of the line I've marked with asterisks: > > > > > > > > Synth1Name=eloq > > > > Synth1LongName=Eloquence for JAWS > > > > Synth1Driver=eloq > > > > ***Synth1Port=C-Media Wave Device*** > > > > Synth2Name=NoSpeech > > > > Synth2LongName=No Speech > > > > Synth2Driver=nospeech > > > > Synth3Name=SAPI 5X > > > > Synth3LongName=SAPI 5 > > > > Synth3Driver=sapi5x > > > > > > > > Insert the line I marked with asterisks, BUT where I have > > C-Media > > > > Wave > > > > Device, you must substitute the exact name of the sound card you > > > > want JAWS > > > > to use, as it appears in the Default Device drop-down, in > > Control > > > > Panel, > > > > Sound and Audio Devices, Audio page. (Be sure that the case and > > > > spacing in > > > > the name you substitute is exact, and be sure there are no > > spaces on > > > > either > > > > side of the equals sign.) This forces eloquence to use the named > > > > sound card, > > > > regardless of which card is selected as the default device. You > > can > > > > now > > > > select a different card as your default device, and JAWS will > > still > > > > use the > > > > named device. > > > > > > > > I don't remember the details of the original issue for which > > Josh > > > > wanted to > > > > know how to use two different sound cards. But hope this will > > help. > > > > > > > > Blessed Be, > > > > > > > > Dana > > > > that's Dayna, D A N A, NOT Donna, D O N N A > > > > > > > > D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Skype: dsleslie > > > > Web: ÞE OL' PHILOSOPHIE SHOPPE > > > > Your Source for Discounted Ideas > > > > http://members.cox.net/dsleslie2/ > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Matthew Bullis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:47 PM > > > > Subject: Re: using two sound cards > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, I found the way to set up the system the way I had it > > > > before. > > > > > You'll > > > > > need sighted assistance to get into the BIOS settings, which > > come > > > > up > > > > > before > > > > > Windows loads. Have your assistant set your onboard sound card > > to > > > > the > > > > > primary sound card, while still keeping your preferred sound > > card > > > > enabled. > > > > > When the computer loads up, Jaws will load up on the onboard. > > So > > > > will > > > > > everything else, such as Real Player, Winamp, and so on. Don't > > > > worry about > > > > > this though. Just go into your control panel, choose sounds > > and > > > > audio > > > > > devices, go to the audio tab, and select the preferred sound > > card > > > > as the > > > > > one > > > > > you usually use, not the onboard one. Now you've got two > > > > conflicting > > > > > things. > > > > > BIOS says your preferred sound card is the onboard one, but > > > > Windows says > > > > > it's > > > > > the one you really want. Windows wins out, but not before Jaws > > is > > > > set to > > > > > the > > > > > onboard one. You can have the best of both worlds, because as > > soon > > > > as you > > > > > unload Jaws and load it back up, it grabs the preferred sound > > > > card, and > > > > > not > > > > > the onboard. When you reboot, Jaws goes back to the onboard. > > You > > > > can thus > > > > > switch between sound cards like that. > > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > Matthew > > > > > > > > > > Tired of HotMail? Try Runbox. 1 gig of storage for a > > reasonable > > > > price. > > > > > Use this link as your referral. > > > > > http://1362.runbox.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. 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