On 1999-08-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Eko Priono> said:
Eko... please excuse my delay in replying, but I've had a number of matters
come up at once here, and I want to get all my facts in order for you...
First, I want to be certain that I've adequately described the computer on
which we're working; it's *not* a "survivor", but the OS (PC DOS 2000) *is*
-- and that's our special challenge. You see, I have *three* OSes (Win98,
Linux Red Hat 5.1 and PC DOS 2000) in separate partitions (with
PartitionMagic) working on this one Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS, 300 MHz CPU
with 32 MB RAM and 4.3 GB HD -- primarily as my own experiment to
demonstrate with a single, modest (albeit modern) notebook computer how well
DOS can still duplicate quite a few of the important "features" of the
other two OSes. So having said that....
>As I said, most likely your sound card has propetiary mixer.
>CreativeLabs' "mixerset" won't work with your card; it may
>appear to work, but no settings were affected. Use the
>mixer program that came/bundled with your sound card.
The "proprietary" mixer comes with Win98: the Yamaha OPL3-SA3. The
performance levels for this mixer are set, as follows:
Audio Recording/Hardware acceleration: fullest setting.
" " /Sample Rate Conversion Quality: good.
These are the recommended settings under Win98.
The OPL3-SA device driver is set, as follows:
Windows Sound System
--------------------
Address:530h IRQ:5 DMA/Play:1 Rec:0
Sound Blaster
-------------
Address:220h IRQ:5 DMA:0
FM Synthesizer
--------------
Address:388h
MPU401
------
Address:330h IRQ:5
Also, the "MIC Volume Control" is enabled at "MIC +20dB", which I used
because at first, under Windows, the external MIC signal seemed too low, and
this boosted it.
>Are you sure it's started in SB Pro compability mode? Some
>compatible sound cards require an initializer program to start
>in SB Pro mode. Some other (Gravis, IIRC), even require a TSR
>installed to work properly in Sound Blaster mode.
Whatever the case, one of my system reporting utilities indicates that I
have a Sound Blaster type card on port "$220" that supports Roland MPU-401.
If any other TSR program is necessary to initialize it under DOS, I'm not
aware of it from any of the items available through Creative.
I hunted high and low through Toshiba's setup of Win98, and the only DOS
utility that I found, TSETUP, just enables or disables microphone recording
capability (it was already *enabled*), among other basic system settings.
The SBPro utility and drivers that I set up under DOS have a diagnostic
utility that indicates I can only set up the BLASTER statement in
autoexec.bat, as follows:
BLASTER=A220 I5 D0 T4
As you can see, I5 and D0 differ from the I7 and D1 that you believe are the
only proper settings. Unfortunately, my IRQ 7 is being used by the parallel
port under DOS. The diagnostic utility won't allow me to alter the I5 or D0
setting on account of conflicts.
How can I get around this difficulty? Is there a way I could disable the
parallel port within a separate boot configuration for when I'm just using
the SBPro recording capability?
>When tried Blaster Master, did you get the following error
>message pop-up:
>"SOUNDCARD NOT FOUND! BLASTER Master requires a Sound
>Blaster or true compatible. ..."
Yes, that was the message.
>The first three parameters are mandatory for
>proper Sound Blaster operation under DOS.
As I've shown above, IRQ 5 is the *only* setting used in Windows and the
only setting allowed by my existing SBPro DOS setup utility. And the DMA
setting can only be set as 0 under DOS, or else it complains.
Jerry
Internet Montana
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