Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Finally I've purchased a Vibra 16 sound card and now the sounds work! Just want to let you know. :) Thanks everybody for help! But I'm ready to test that Mwave card I have to fix the incompatibility we've recovered. --- Original message --- From: dima [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 01:19 On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday I'm going to visit some PC shops which sells old hardware. Is there any tips about those ISA soundblaster cards? Which model, manufacturer, etc.? Thanks in advance! Creative ViBRA16X ISA card work not bad under FreeDOS. P.S. btw, this card have FM tuner. Does anybody know how to listen a FM radio stations under FreeDOS? -- Take care. Your friend, dima pr0zac*softhome.net 2:550/112 http://e4c9cdc1.port5.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Unfortunately there is only Windows drivers for my CS4280 PCI card on driverguide dot com (and of course it supported by newer versions of Windows and by Linux/BSD kernels) and as we now know the Mwave drivers for DOS or 1/incompatible with my ISA card or 2/incompatible with FreeDOS. --- Original message --- From: Tom Lee Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Monday 10 October 2005 17:42 http://list.driverguide.com/list/DOS/company967/ Partial List of SoundBlaster DOS Drivers http://list.driverguide.com/list/DOS/company258/ http://list.driverguide.com/list/DOS/company258/ soundblaster drivers for dos http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14837.html# http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/10418.html I found the above results with Google. Does any of the above help? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 12:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you provide me with which model Aptiva you have, it might help me to ensure you have the proper drivers. The exact model No. is: 2176352. Information about this model available at the IBM site. There was a win95 originally pre-installed on this PC. If you have access to a MS/PC boot disk, you may want to try running the mwave setup from there to see if that helps (once setup it may run fine with the FD kernel). Please let me know if everything works when booting this but not FD or if once installed (using MS/PC kernel) it works for FD kernel. I don't have MS-DOS or PC-DOS, but I can download OpenDOS if it can help to test the things. Would a boot floppy work. I can make a dd of one from PCDOS2000 by ibm. Put as much as I can on it and send it to you or if possible the files area if this list has such. Then all you need is a program to put the image back. BTW there is a port of dd for windows which runs in konsole under 98 or xp. The command line is somewhat different than linux people are accustomed to. CWSIV --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:45 -0700, Brolin Empey wrote: You should have used MS-DOS v7 (which ships with Windows 9x), which supports FAT32! http://www.mbhs.edu/~jaosborn/boot98se.exe Try that. It is a self-extracting zip archive, so extract it with e.g InfoZIP. On Linux you can then run the following to write it to a diskette: dd if=winb98se.IMA of=/dev/fda How do you convert the executable with its overhead directly to an image? As I remember the executable contains the image but I dont know the offset as to where in the EXE the image starts. CWSIV --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Thanks, but I've allready checked the things with MS-DOS floppy. What I know now is that with MS I get no error messages, but I still can't check is the sound driver work, because apps which use sound claims that there is no enough memory. So actually I know nothing :) --- Original message --- From: Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Tuesday 11 October 2005 00:57 Would a boot floppy work. I can make a dd of one from PCDOS2000 by ibm. Put as much as I can on it and send it to you or if possible the files area if this list has such. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that was a rather stupid question about win drivers for DOS. And is there any tip for a 100% DOS compatible PCI sound card? I mean no drivers, etc needed? Thanks in advance! --- Original message --- From: Brolin Empey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Friday 07 October 2005 19:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've find some drivers here for this card (http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=71335) but as I can see those drivers for windows. Is there any chance that I can make them work in FreeDOS? No, you cannot use Windows drivers with FreeDOS. Why don't you make things a lot easier and simply buy an ISA SoundBlaster card? Depending on the model, you do not need any drivers, Plug Play initialisation utilities, or any other software because DOS applications supporting the SB provide their own routines to drive the card. I have two CT2960 (ViBRA 16C, according to the IC labelled U3 on the board) cards which work with all DOS applications written to drive a plain SB or SB16. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user http://list.driverguide.com/list/DOS/company967/ Partial List of SoundBlaster DOS Drivers http://list.driverguide.com/list/DOS/company258/ http://list.driverguide.com/list/DOS/company258/ soundblaster drivers for dos http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14837.html# http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/10418.html I found the above results with Google. Does any of the above help? -- TomLeeM / BigWarpGuy * * * * * * * * OS2eCS.org Director of Communications * * * * * OS/2 Warp - eComStation Org * * * * * * * * http://www.os2ecs.org * * * * * * * * * Supporting Past OS/2 Uers and Future eCS Users * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
An Aptiva, makes much more sense now why you have mwave. :-) Most likely you are experiencing one of two problems (or both), either the drivers are not quite compatible with your particular mwave card or they are not quite compatible with the FreeDOS kernel. From http://freedos.sourceforge.net/laptops/ibm/760e.html we know that at least the mwave drivers present in some thinkpads are compatible with the FD kernel, it may simply be the wrong driver; however there is note of a particular setup portion for mwave not functioning (sadly no details) so perhaps you are seeing a related issue. [Hopefully not, but it may also indicate a compatibility regression.] You may want to compare your config/autoexec with the ones listed here, I suspect the needed statements for mwave support will be similar on an Aptiva. If you have access to a MS/PC boot disk, you may want to try running the mwave setup from there to see if that helps (once setup it may run fine with the FD kernel). Please let me know if everything works when booting this but not FD or if once installed (using MS/PC kernel) it works for FD kernel. If you provide me with which model Aptiva you have, it might help me to ensure you have the proper drivers. thanks, Jeremy -- Original Message - Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:52:33 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net ..(my PC is also an IBM Aptiva), but after reboot I've got the following error message: MCB chain setup failed (or something like that), or MS-DOS incompatible system. What it mean and can it be fixed? .. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
If you provide me with which model Aptiva you have, it might help me to ensure you have the proper drivers. The exact model No. is: 2176352. Information about this model available at the IBM site. There was a win95 originally pre-installed on this PC. If you have access to a MS/PC boot disk, you may want to try running the mwave setup from there to see if that helps (once setup it may run fine with the FD kernel). Please let me know if everything works when booting this but not FD or if once installed (using MS/PC kernel) it works for FD kernel. I don't have MS-DOS or PC-DOS, but I can download OpenDOS if it can help to test the things. --- Original message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 12:00 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Ok, I've downloaded a MS622 boot disk, So I'm going try to install the driver with this kernel. Or should I use 5.0 version instead, because as I know FreeDOS is compatible with 5.0? --- Original message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 12:00 An Aptiva, makes much more sense now why you have mwave. :-) Most likely you are experiencing one of two problems (or both), either the drivers are not quite compatible with your particular mwave card or they are not quite compatible with the FreeDOS kernel. From http://freedos.sourceforge.net/laptops/ibm/760e.html we know that at least the mwave drivers present in some thinkpads are compatible with the FD kernel, it may simply be the wrong driver; however there is note of a particular setup portion for mwave not functioning (sadly no details) so perhaps you are seeing a related issue. [Hopefully not, but it may also indicate a compatibility regression.] You may want to compare your config/autoexec with the ones listed here, I suspect the needed statements for mwave support will be similar on an Aptiva. If you have access to a MS/PC boot disk, you may want to try running the mwave setup from there to see if that helps (once setup it may run fine with the FD kernel). Please let me know if everything works when booting this but not FD or if once installed (using MS/PC kernel) it works for FD kernel. If you provide me with which model Aptiva you have, it might help me to ensure you have the proper drivers. thanks, Jeremy -- Original Message - Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:52:33 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net ..(my PC is also an IBM Aptiva), but after reboot I've got the following error message: MCB chain setup failed (or something like that), or MS-DOS incompatible system. What it mean and can it be fixed? .. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
If you provide me with which model Aptiva you have, it might help me to ensure you have the proper drivers. The exact model No. is: 2176352. Information about this model available at the IBM site. There was a win95 originally pre-installed on this PC. If you have access to a MS/PC boot disk, you may want to try running the mwave setup from there to see if that helps (once setup it may run fine with the FD kernel). Please let me know if everything works when booting this but not FD or if once installed (using MS/PC kernel) it works for FD kernel. I don't have MS-DOS or PC-DOS, but I can download OpenDOS if it can help to test the things. You can get boot disk from lot of sites. e.g. http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm http://www.bootdisk.com/ http://www.allbootdisks.com/ Hope this helps. __ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
BTW my HDD is formatted as Fat32, so I think this is the problem. --- Original message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 16:49 I've booted from MS floppy but after that I don't know what to do next, because the only device it can see is the A: floppy drive. To install mvawe drivers I need two floppy to start the installation and copy the files to the hard disk, but since when booting from MS floppy only the floppy drive is visible, the mwave driver installation attempts install everything on A: drive. So I really stick here :) --- Original message --- From: Diego Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 13:22 You can get boot disk from lot of sites. e.g. http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm http://www.bootdisk.com/ http://www.allbootdisks.com/ Hope this helps. __ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
I've booted from MS floppy but after that I don't know what to do next, because the only device it can see is the A: floppy drive. To install mvawe drivers I need two floppy to start the installation and copy the files to the hard disk, but since when booting from MS floppy only the floppy drive is visible, the mwave driver installation attempts install everything on A: drive. So I really stick here :) --- Original message --- From: Diego Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 13:22 You can get boot disk from lot of sites. e.g. http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm http://www.bootdisk.com/ http://www.allbootdisks.com/ Hope this helps. __ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
I've converted my HDD to FAT, so for a clear experiment I can try the MS622. As I understand I should now boot from A:, then install the mwave drivers and allow them to overwrite the autoexec.bat and config.sys on MS floppy, then reboot from floppy again and see if the mwave drivers were correctly loaded? --- Original message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 16:51 BTW my HDD is formatted as Fat32, so I think this is the problem. --- Original message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 16:49 I've booted from MS floppy but after that I don't know what to do next, because the only device it can see is the A: floppy drive. To install mvawe drivers I need two floppy to start the installation and copy the files to the hard disk, but since when booting from MS floppy only the floppy drive is visible, the mwave driver installation attempts install everything on A: drive. So I really stick here :) --- Original message --- From: Diego Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 13:22 You can get boot disk from lot of sites. e.g. http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm http://www.bootdisk.com/ http://www.allbootdisks.com/ Hope this helps. __ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
I've managed to install the mwave drivers with the MS boot floppy and there is no error messages while loading the drivers. But I can not test the sound because every applications which use sound says that there is no enough memory to run. I've setup the MS config.sys on floppy to load DOS high, but it doesn't help. What should be the next step? How can I adopt the drivers to FreeDOS? --- Original message --- From: Brolin Empey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 19:45 You should have used MS-DOS v7 (which ships with Windows 9x), which supports FAT32! http://www.mbhs.edu/~jaosborn/boot98se.exe Try that. It is a self-extracting zip archive, so extract it with e.g InfoZIP. On Linux you can then run the following to write it to a diskette: dd if=winb98se.IMA of=/dev/fda See if you can have the Mwave driver installer write the required changes to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to new files (e.g. *.001). Then you can incorporate the changes into your FreeDOS CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've managed to install the mwave drivers with the MS boot floppy and there is no error messages while loading the drivers. But I can not test the sound because every applications which use sound says that there is no enough memory to run. I've setup the MS config.sys on floppy to load DOS high, but it doesn't help. What should be the next step? How can I adopt the drivers to FreeDOS? If they aren't already, copy the mwave directories to your FD drive, then copy the entries added to your config.sys autoexec.bat for MSDOS to your config.sys autoexec.bat for FD (adjusting paths as needed). See if the driver loads ok. If it does then hopefully you will also have enough free memory to try and use the sound. If it doesn't then your options are either not use FD with sound or work with me running a bunch of tests to help track down the incompatibilities hopefully leading to a fix. Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
I've modified the FD autoexec.bat and config.sys, but it still comes with an error message like: MCB chain corrupted, or MS-DOS incompatible system. Probably it's not a big problem, because when FD boot I can hear some sound from speaker (like when you turn it on) and the same sounds was with MS. But the driver conflict with mouse and cd driver and still not work and unfortunately I have no expirience with setup ISA cards in BIOS. Of course I'll be glad to help you to test the things. --- Original message --- From: Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sunday 09 October 2005 21:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've managed to install the mwave drivers with the MS boot floppy and there is no error messages while loading the drivers. But I can not test the sound because every applications which use sound says that there is no enough memory to run. I've setup the MS config.sys on floppy to load DOS high, but it doesn't help. What should be the next step? How can I adopt the drivers to FreeDOS? If they aren't already, copy the mwave directories to your FD drive, then copy the entries added to your config.sys autoexec.bat for MSDOS to your config.sys autoexec.bat for FD (adjusting paths as needed). See if the driver loads ok. If it does then hopefully you will also have enough free memory to try and use the sound. If it doesn't then your options are either not use FD with sound or work with me running a bunch of tests to help track down the incompatibilities hopefully leading to a fix. Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
On Monday I'm going to visit some PC shops which sells old hardware. Is there any tips about those ISA soundblaster cards? Which model, manufacturer, etc.? Thanks in advance! --- Original message --- From: Brolin Empey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Saturday 08 October 2005 10:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that was a rather stupid question about win drivers for DOS. And is there any tip for a 100% DOS compatible PCI sound card? I mean no drivers, etc needed? Thanks in advance! There is no such thing as a DOS compatible sound card, because DOS does not support sound cards. DOS applications include their own routines or use a library such as MIDAS or DIGIPAK to drive a sound card. What you probably want is a PCI card that is hardware compatible with a SoundBlaster, so that DOS applications which have been written to drive such a card can function. I don't know much about PCI sound cards, so I'm not sure whether there are any which are completely hardware compatible with the SoundBlaster (thus not requiring any software to achieve compatibility with applications written to drive an SB). With a more modern OS such as Linux or Windows, a kernel driver is responsible for driving the sound card. This way, applications can use a standard interface rather than having to support every possible type of audio hardware. This avoids the problem seen on DOS where the hardware changes (audio integrated on modern motherboards, which no longer include ISA slots), leaving applications to run in silence because they only support old audio hardware. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday I'm going to visit some PC shops which sells old hardware. Is there any tips about those ISA soundblaster cards? Which model, manufacturer, etc.? Thanks in advance! I have only used the basic SB models, i.e. those without wavetable synthesis as on e.g. the AWE64. The AWE64 Gold is probably the highest-end ISA model, but I have never used one so I don't know what the situation is with drivers, Plug Play manager software, and such. If you want to use unpowered speakers, you might want to get a card with a built-in amplifier (it should have a dial to control the volume on the card near the input and output jacks). Wikipedia has a nice article detailing the history of the SoundBlaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundBlaster --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday I'm going to visit some PC shops which sells old hardware. Is there any tips about those ISA soundblaster cards? Which model, manufacturer, etc.? Thanks in advance! Creative ViBRA16X ISA card work not bad under FreeDOS. P.S. btw, this card have FM tuner. Does anybody know how to listen a FM radio stations under FreeDOS? -- Take care. Your friend, dima pr0zac*softhome.net 2:550/112 http://e4c9cdc1.port5.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Unfortunately mpxplay failed to detect my sound cards. I still know nothing about those ISA card, but this PC was made in 1996, so I think the isa card should be at least soundblaster compatible, but previously there was win98 installed on that PC and it always failed to detect any isa. And the PCI card is Chrystal Fusion (Cirrus) 4280. Is anybody has similar card an was able to set it up under FreeDOS? --- Original message --- From: Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Friday 07 October 2005 16:53 1/That isa card don't work at all or 2/ I need to enable in in BIOS by assigning some system resources to it, but I don't have any documentation for Usually you must set %BLASTER% to the resources (IRQ...) of the sound card. If it is not a sound blaster, you also need a driver. that PC. But my PCI card aslo wont work under DOS (just plays music from cd) - Wolf3D can't see any soundblasters in my system. Is there any information Try to get MPXPlay (www.mpxplay.net) to work. It supports many sound cards without needing a driver. It will also tell you what kind you have in the upper-right hand corner. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately mpxplay failed to detect my sound cards. I still know nothing about those ISA card, but this PC was made in 1996, so I think the isa card should be at least soundblaster compatible, but previously there was win98 What's its FCC ID? What chips are on the card? Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Blair Campbell wrote: 1/That isa card don't work at all or 2/ I need to enable in in BIOS by assigning some system resources to it, but I don't have any documentation for Usually you must set %BLASTER% to the resources (IRQ...) of the sound card. If it is not a sound blaster, you also need a driver. Since you say it is a sound+modem card it is possible they share hardware, in which case it most likely will not work without associated software driver (an example would be mwave that was used in older IBM Thinkpads). Of course it could simply be a an ISA-PNP [plug-n-play] card you may have to configure the resources the card uses; some BIOSes may do this, but usually a program accompanies the card and will do this for DOS, alternatively the ISAPNP program may work (a real mode DOS version is on darklogic.org somewhere or a DJGPP compiled DOS version is available from the maintainer's site, sorry I don't have the url handy). I'm sure you have, but be sure if you want to play CDs directly (as opposed to an audio file like a VOC or WAV) that you have the cable connected from the CD-ROM to the proper input on the sound card (some have multiple ones). Sorry, but without knowing what exact card you have I can't provide any good advice. Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Ok, I've just removed it. As I said before it's looks like a modem+soundcard and it's damn big (bigger then some agp cards). The sound chip is: Chrystal CS4218-KL. And I still don't understand why it can't play cd-audio. --- Original message --- From: Robert Riebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Friday 07 October 2005 17:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately mpxplay failed to detect my sound cards. I still know nothing about those ISA card, but this PC was made in 1996, so I think the isa card should be at least soundblaster compatible, but previously there was win98 What's its FCC ID? What chips are on the card? Robert Riebisch --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Yes, the bigger chip is: mwave --- Original message --- From: Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Friday 07 October 2005 18:06 Blair Campbell wrote: 1/That isa card don't work at all or 2/ I need to enable in in BIOS by assigning some system resources to it, but I don't have any documentation for Usually you must set %BLASTER% to the resources (IRQ...) of the sound card. If it is not a sound blaster, you also need a driver. Since you say it is a sound+modem card it is possible they share hardware, in which case it most likely will not work without associated software driver (an example would be mwave that was used in older IBM Thinkpads). Of course it could simply be a an ISA-PNP [plug-n-play] card you may have to configure the resources the card uses; some BIOSes may do this, but usually a program accompanies the card and will do this for DOS, alternatively the ISAPNP program may work (a real mode DOS version is on darklogic.org somewhere or a DJGPP compiled DOS version is available from the maintainer's site, sorry I don't have the url handy). I'm sure you have, but be sure if you want to play CDs directly (as opposed to an audio file like a VOC or WAV) that you have the cable connected from the CD-ROM to the proper input on the sound card (some have multiple ones). Sorry, but without knowing what exact card you have I can't provide any good advice. Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
I've find some drivers here for this card (http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=71335) but as I can see those drivers for windows. Is there any chance that I can make them work in FreeDOS? --- Original message --- From: Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Friday 07 October 2005 18:06 Blair Campbell wrote: 1/That isa card don't work at all or 2/ I need to enable in in BIOS by assigning some system resources to it, but I don't have any documentation for Usually you must set %BLASTER% to the resources (IRQ...) of the sound card. If it is not a sound blaster, you also need a driver. Since you say it is a sound+modem card it is possible they share hardware, in which case it most likely will not work without associated software driver (an example would be mwave that was used in older IBM Thinkpads). Of course it could simply be a an ISA-PNP [plug-n-play] card you may have to configure the resources the card uses; some BIOSes may do this, but usually a program accompanies the card and will do this for DOS, alternatively the ISAPNP program may work (a real mode DOS version is on darklogic.org somewhere or a DJGPP compiled DOS version is available from the maintainer's site, sorry I don't have the url handy). I'm sure you have, but be sure if you want to play CDs directly (as opposed to an audio file like a VOC or WAV) that you have the cable connected from the CD-ROM to the proper input on the sound card (some have multiple ones). Sorry, but without knowing what exact card you have I can't provide any good advice. Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've find some drivers here for this card (http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=71335) but as I can see those drivers for windows. Is there any chance that I can make them work in FreeDOS? No, you cannot use Windows drivers with FreeDOS. Why don't you make things a lot easier and simply buy an ISA SoundBlaster card? Depending on the model, you do not need any drivers, Plug Play initialisation utilities, or any other software because DOS applications supporting the SB provide their own routines to drive the card. I have two CT2960 (ViBRA 16C, according to the IC labelled U3 on the board) cards which work with all DOS applications written to drive a plain SB or SB16. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
Yes, that was a rather stupid question about win drivers for DOS. And is there any tip for a 100% DOS compatible PCI sound card? I mean no drivers, etc needed? Thanks in advance! --- Original message --- From: Brolin Empey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Friday 07 October 2005 19:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've find some drivers here for this card (http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=71335) but as I can see those drivers for windows. Is there any chance that I can make them work in FreeDOS? No, you cannot use Windows drivers with FreeDOS. Why don't you make things a lot easier and simply buy an ISA SoundBlaster card? Depending on the model, you do not need any drivers, Plug Play initialisation utilities, or any other software because DOS applications supporting the SB provide their own routines to drive the card. I have two CT2960 (ViBRA 16C, according to the IC labelled U3 on the board) cards which work with all DOS applications written to drive a plain SB or SB16. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Who the hell are you, and why are you playing with my kernel? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
