[Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?
Hi Nicholas, thanks for informing me that CMI sound chips suck. I agree with you on that by now :-). Lucho has sent me his drivers (initializers) for DOS, and my SB AWE32 diagnostics tool got happy after using them, even played sample sounds, but most games still only worked Adlib- or OPL3-wise. The normal DSP wave sound output with DMA still only sounded silence, or the games simply failed to detect the card at all. Whatever. Point for CMedia is that the Linux driver worked just fine, but for now, I switched back to ISA sound cards on my old PC again. If you know a PCI or onboard sound card which works REALLY good with DOS games, let us know ;-). Otherwise I guess I would just get a really FAST PC as soon as I stop using ISA - then I can let all DOS games run in emulators, and use PLAIN DOS only for non-funny stuff or for mp3 (MPXPLAY has native CMedia and AC97 drivers built-in...). Eric PS: Okay, SOME games worked, but that had taken days to figure out. Not exactly what CMedia TELLS that their chip would offer compatibility-wise. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?
Hi Eric, You have a CMI8738 where the OPL cell actually works? This is news to me and my contact at C-media would very much like to know about this. As far as we knew, only CMI8338 has a working OPL. All the CMI8738 samples I can locate have OPL that either sounds silence, or the output is all randomly mixed up and wrong. Can you send me lspci -vvv? And maybe a little sample output from an Adlib prog? :) BTW, this web page might help you: http://www.it-he.org/sound.htm Ryan On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:03:15PM +0100, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Nicholas, thanks for informing me that CMI sound chips suck. I agree with you on that by now :-). Lucho has sent me his drivers (initializers) for DOS, and my SB AWE32 diagnostics tool got happy after using them, even played sample sounds, but most games still only worked Adlib- or OPL3-wise. The normal DSP wave sound output with DMA still only sounded silence, or the games simply failed to detect the card at all. Whatever. Point for CMedia is that the Linux driver worked just fine, but for now, I switched back to ISA sound cards on my old PC again. If you know a PCI or onboard sound card which works REALLY good with DOS games, let us know ;-). Otherwise I guess I would just get a really FAST PC as soon as I stop using ISA - then I can let all DOS games run in emulators, and use PLAIN DOS only for non-funny stuff or for mp3 (MPXPLAY has native CMedia and AC97 drivers built-in...). Eric PS: Okay, SOME games worked, but that had taken days to figure out. Not exactly what CMedia TELLS that their chip would offer compatibility-wise. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Ryan Underwood, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:19:04 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi Eric, Apart from that, he simply recommends using actual ISA sound cards ;-). Oh ... no! We can't stay in ISA world anymore, even PCI will be replaced by PCI-Express. I wonder how well the SBLive / SBPCI drivers work in DOS, now that Michael added the extra SB support option to EMM386, any experience reports? Maybe you forgot, I write a few email about this. It's working only when 'SB' switch with 'EMM=1800' (actually 1536 or something like this, but I play safe). But some game such as TYRIAN will crash, should be problem of the SBEGO.EXE, heavily protected and eat up lots of memory!! Rgds, Johnson. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:19:04 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi Eric, Apart from that, he simply recommends using actual ISA sound cards ;-). Oh ... no! We can't stay in ISA world anymore, even PCI will be replaced by PCI-Express. I wonder how well the SBLive / SBPCI drivers work in DOS, now that Michael added the extra SB support option to EMM386, any experience reports? Maybe you forgot, I write a few email about this. It's working only when 'SB' switch with 'EMM=1800' (actually 1536 or something like this, but I play safe). But some game such as TYRIAN will crash, should be problem of the SBEGO.EXE, heavily protected and eat up lots of memory!! Rgds, Johnson. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
