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=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=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=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
