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From: jr_fox@earthlink.net                              19-Nov-99 14:57:05
  To: All                                               20-Nov-99 03:28:01
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: "J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@earthlink.net>

Gideon Singer wrote:

> So is there anyone who "wants to stick their neck out" and tell me "in
> their opinion" which is the best RWCD for OS2?
> 

I can't *specifically* answer your question, because I don't do
RW for burning CDs.  However, the consensus I have heard is 
that for overall quality/reliability (regardless of price -- 
and this _is_ at the high end), Plextor is considered the best.
One of the Compuserve OS/2 Sysops has a facility that does CD
mastering, among other things, and has told me that Plextor is
what is considered professional gear.  I've been quite pleased
with my UltraPlex reader, and their burner which was added more
recently.  These are probably also faster than anything else 
currently on the market.  I would expect that their RW units 
follow suit.

Below this level, and more favorably priced, my dealer (a 
custom shop, and very critical when it comes to equipment) has
liked the Yamaha line.

<jf>

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From: mwalsh1@elp.rr.com                                19-Nov-99 18:47:22
  To: All                                               20-Nov-99 03:28:01
Subj: Re: Who posts hardware ratings?

From: "Matt Walsh" <mwalsh1@elp.rr.com>

PC Magazine has a pretty fair collection of ratings at their site.

On 19 Nov 1999 17:15:13 GMT, Ron Gibson wrote:

>Does anyone know of a site that rates hardware for PC's similar to the
>magazine Consumer Reports?
>
>I've tried a few sites and found a few ratings but either the list of
>hardware is very spotty or it's a nightmare wading through all of the
>links. 
>
>BTW, I hope the wide cross posting doesn't annoy anyone but this 
>has been one of the most frustrating things I've searched for on the 
>net.
>
>                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com
>


Matt Walsh  	OS/2 Outpost
El Paso, TX	Computin' & Shootin' in the dust.


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From: gsinger@nospam.home.com                           20-Nov-99 16:53:18
  To: All                                               20-Nov-99 14:53:12
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: gsinger@nospam.home.com (Gideon Singer)

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:57:11, "J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@earthlink.net> 
wrote:

-> I can't *specifically* answer your question, because I don't do
-> RW for burning CDs.  However, the consensus I have heard is 
-> that for overall quality/reliability (regardless of price -- 
-> and this _is_ at the high end), Plextor is considered the best.
-> One of the Compuserve OS/2 Sysops has a facility that does CD
-> mastering, among other things, and has told me that Plextor is
-> what is considered professional gear.  I've been quite pleased
-> with my UltraPlex reader, and their burner which was added more
-> recently.  These are probably also faster than anything else 
-> currently on the market.  I would expect that their RW units 
-> follow suit.
-> 
-> Below this level, and more favorably priced, my dealer (a 
-> custom shop, and very critical when it comes to equipment) has
-> liked the Yamaha line.
-> 
-> <jf>
-> 

Thank you for your comments. They are much appreciated,

Gideon Singer
Webpage: members.home.net:80/gsinger
Remove the 'nospam' to email

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From: gzimmer@attglobal.net                             20-Nov-99 23:55:20
  To: All                                               21-Nov-99 02:58:01
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: gzimmer@attglobal.net

gsinger@nospam.home.com (Gideon Singer) writes:
>I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any 
>consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup? 

I can only answer for the OS/2 side of things. I am very happy with
the Yamaha CRW4416SX SCSI drive. No errors burning CD's, with a
486 DX100 no less. Using CD Record/2 which is freeware. RSJ offers
a commercial solution for OS/2. Adaptec offers a Windows solution if
you are using one of their SCSI cards. You can also find Adaptec's 
product for Windows available retail. (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc).

CDRecord/2 along with an excellent audio/data shell can be obtained
from:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/index.html#cdrecord

Just follow his instructions on the page, set-up was easy, and it is very
well integrated into OS/2's WPS. The author has done a wonderful job
in porting this from UNIX and making it an OS/2 product.



Gail Zimmerman
gzimmer@ibm.net

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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 21-Nov-99 00:03:22
  To: All                                               21-Nov-99 10:40:10
Subj: Re: SoundBlaster PnP

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.multimedia, email address (Real Name (Optional))
spake unto us, saying:

>Anyone know how to get a Soundblaster PnP to work under warp4?

Which SoundBlaster card specifically (that term refers to over a dozen
different cards, some of them using completely different chipsets)?

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
                    I understand this *IS* Bolton.

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From: sachmo@horn.net                                   21-Nov-99 09:06:29
  To: All                                               21-Nov-99 10:40:10
Subj: Re: Video codecs for OS/2

From: sachmo@horn.net

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 05:38:26, hunters@sapphire.indstate.edu wrote:

> Yep, AnPoCODEC, that was it! And since I've already got QuickMotion/2,
> I just have to figure out what my AnPo registration number is, and I'm
> all set.

Allow a DUH question - why's it needed?

Thanks
Gene
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pequod@gate.net

The minstrel boy to the war is gone
In the ranks of death you'll find him;
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard;
Words shall never sound in slavery!
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From: hunters@sapphire.indstate.edu                     22-Nov-99 06:58:11
  To: All                                               22-Nov-99 05:13:04
Subj: Re: USB Audio & Labtec 1040

From: hunters@sapphire.indstate.edu

In article <d0EYGxBKx2hN-pn2-d7KucrSscKhK@localhost>,
  hendri1@ibm.net (Stan Hendrix) wrote:

> Anybody had success with the USB audio drivers with the Labtec
> speakers?   I have installed the basic USB drivers and the USB audio

Many people have reported sucess.

> drivers, and made the USB devices the default in the multimedia setup
> folder but no USB sound.   Maybe the problem has to do with the
> following error message in the minstall.log:  "An mciSendCommand
> failed with wMessage=15, dwParam1=4096"

You have to have an Intel based UHCI USB controller for the IBM
drivers. Robert Lalla was working on some drivers that will work with
VIA's UHCI controllers, but neither will work with OHCI controllers.
Robert's drivers are on hobbes I believe. (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/)

Also make sure that your USB ports do in fact work at all!

--
-Steven Hunter                *OS/2 Warp 4 * |But on the other hand...|
hunters@sapphire.indstate.edu *AMD K6-2 400* |There's 5 more fingers. |


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From: morgannalefey@my-deja.com                         22-Nov-99 13:30:28
  To: All                                               22-Nov-99 12:11:10
Subj: Re: Who posts hardware ratings?

From: Siobhan Perricone <morgannalefey@my-deja.com>

In article <zjnyfuryceepbz.flgy3k0.pminews@news-server>,
  "Matt Walsh" <mwalsh1@elp.rr.com> wrote:

> PC Magazine has a pretty fair collection of ratings at their site.

I'd have a pretty hard time trusting a site like this when a fair whack
of their budget comes from advertising by the companies that make the
products they're trying to review.

--
Siobhan Perricone
PC Technician
Alltel Information Services
(I only speak for myself, not for Alltel)


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From: jaaskela@tietomyrsky.fi                           22-Nov-99 12:45:03
  To: All                                               22-Nov-99 12:11:10
Subj: Re: Creative DXR2 DVD Open Source

From: Vesa =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= <jaaskela@tietomyrsky.fi>

> I was wondering if anyone else was considering doing a
> Creative DXR2 driver for Warp 4 or is currently doing
> work on one?

I was considering about trying to create driver... but my
tools are limited to DDK tools and Watcom C/C++ v11b...

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From: operagost@e-mail.com                              22-Nov-99 23:08:13
  To: All                                               22-Nov-99 21:38:29
Subj: Trap 000e with Crystal 4237B

From: "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" <operagost@e-mail.com>

I have a Turtle Beach Malibu Surround which used to work fine, but now
whenever I play a MIDI file, either from Netscape or any other program, after
I exit the player it causes a Trap 000e in CWMPU1$. I think it might have been
caused by the latest version of the generic Crystal drivers I'm using. Here's
my config.sys:

BASEDEV=CWAUDIO.SYS /N:BSAUD1$ /X1:100 /X2:100 /LCAPT:X1X2
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\CWVAUDIO.SYS BSAUD1$
DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\CWMPU401.SYS /O:ONLYONE /O:LONGNAME /O:MULTIIRQ /O:MULTIIO
/O:16BITS /N:CWMPU1$

I would go back to an earlier version, but I don't have it anymore and
can't find it. The generic MPU401 driver doesn't work, either.

I have Warp 4 with FP 12.
-- 
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         Stephen Eickhoff
          Havertown, PA
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From: jaaskela@tietomyrsky.fi                           23-Nov-99 07:26:04
  To: All                                               23-Nov-99 10:20:09
Subj: Re: Creative DXR2 DVD Open Source

From: Vesa =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= <jaaskela@tietomyrsky.fi>

> You can register at IBM's homepage as a driver programmer free of
> charge. You get the necessary tools (C compiler Assembler etc) for
> free...

Like MS C 6.0 and MASM 6.0 ?... included in DDK... I have sense
that we are talking about same thing... :)

there are many example sources in DDK that needs VAC 3.0 to compile.
and won't compile easily with watcoms one.

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From: reply_to_the_newsgroup@please.com                 23-Nov-99 10:53:01
  To: All                                               23-Nov-99 10:20:09
Subj: Re: Building AMD Athalon System - OS/2 Compatible Components?

From: Wim Wauters <reply_to_the_newsgroup@please.com>


Jim Davie wrote:

> Any yeah or na to anything listed below would be greatly appreciated!!

> Asus K7M Athalon motherboard

Brilliant choice ! Has always worked for OS/2 (see > 64MB saga, aka ACPI1
versus ACPI2)

> IBM Deskstar 22GXP (22GB Ultra 66)

I'm running this hard disk with a Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard.
In the config.sys, I have to add the following to the
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD line:
/!SHUTDOWN, so the line looks like:

BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /!SHUTDOWN

The reason for this shutdown option, is that after a reset or reboot (not a
powerdown/powerup) the harddisk goes into powersaving mode (i.e. spins down)
after 1 second of non-usage, so it spins up & down all the time.
This problem might be related to the combination of IBMs506 and my Ali 5
chipset, but keep this in mind.
Also, the IBMs506 driver is very slow (10seconds!) to initialize, so I use
Daniela's DaniS506.ADD without any options. Her driver initializes so fast, I
can't see it pass on the screen, i.e. < 1second.
Her driver can be found on the Hobbes archive.

OS/2 forever !

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From: reply_to_the_newsgroup@please.com                 23-Nov-99 16:09:14
  To: All                                               23-Nov-99 16:44:02
Subj: EEP ! almost forgot !!

From: Wim Wauters <reply_to_the_newsgroup@please.com>


Jim Davie wrote:

> Thanks Wim!
>
> I was a bit concerned about the 22GB hard drive, and have already downloaded
> the DaniS506 driver!  I'm really looking forward to using the AMD 550 when
> compared to my current Pentium 200 (soon to be the kids gaming machine)!

You should know this already, but here goes: if you want to access all
harddisk
space from the start -OR- the hard disk is already partitioned beyond >8.4GB,
you need to update your OS/2 installation disks.

1) go to the online IBM driver pack, look for "updated OS/2 components",
locate,
'larger than 8.4GB support & download the 'upgrade'. You'll see it is just a
subset of IDE-related drivers from a fixpack (I guess 6, or maybe it's just
the
latest, 12).

2) don't forget to edit the config.sys file in order to copy drivers &
config.sys from floppy (i.e. not from the good old OS/2 cdrom),hence add the
following line:
set copyFromFloppy=1

That's about it I think ;-)

I hope you have access to a second machine running OS/2 in case anything goes
wrong (I'm assuming you connect from home through a modem).

Good luck ,
OS/2 forever !

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From: reply_to_the_newsgroup@please.com                 23-Nov-99 16:19:01
  To: All                                               23-Nov-99 16:44:02
Subj: Question about SMART

From: Wim Wauters <reply_to_the_newsgroup@please.com>


Jim Davie wrote:

> Thanks Wim!

I feel better already !

> I was a bit concerned about the 22GB hard drive, and have already downloaded
> the DaniS506 driver!  I'm really looking forward to using the AMD 550 when
> compared to my current Pentium 200 (soon to be the kids gaming machine)!

I wish my 22GXP was 22GB, but it's 'only' 13GB. Still, that's enough to be
mightily annoyed by the '4-partition' limit. (i.e. 3 primaries + 1 extended).
Anyway, when my cumbersome GA-5AA boots, the BIOS tells me the Hard Disk is
SMART capable, but disabled !!
Yet, when I run the 'drive fitness test' from the IBM website
it performs SMART checks !!

Let me know if your SMART is enabled (I'm suspecting the Ali 5 again).

(Tip: download the hard disk noises from the IBM site, great WAV's !)

OS/2 forever !

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From: isaacl@sonics.ece.ubc.ca                          23-Nov-99 20:40:26
  To: All                                               23-Nov-99 16:44:03
Subj: Re: MIDI player available?

From: isaacl@sonics.ece.ubc.ca (e-frog)

Luc Van Bogaert (luc.vanbogaert.nospam@pandora.be) wrote:
: Hi,

: I'm rediscovering MIDI as a fun way to have some background music while I'm
working. I was 
: wondering if anyone knows of a good MIDI player for OS/2, which has some
basic functionality like 
: playlists, scramble play, repeat play, ... Mind, I don't need a whole
multimedia suite...

What sound card do you have?

I know that there is a whole pack of utilites for the SB32, one of which
is a very nice looking MIDI player with the features you want. 

I don't know if it will work for other sound cards, but it's free. Grab it
off Creative's site. You can delete the portions you don't want.


Isaac

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From: jkross@TIRED_OF_SPAM@oxford.net                   23-Nov-99 13:54:17
  To: All                                               23-Nov-99 19:58:05
Subj: Re: PAS install ???

From: jkross@TIRED_OF_SPAM@oxford.net (John Ross)

In message <rUFuMnKSVn3t-pn2-JRdXhZnD52bh@localhost> - swansona@fastwave.net
writes:
:>
:>		I am trying to install a Media Vision Pro Audio Studio board (whith 
:>SCSI) -- PAS board.   So far, No Go!  Works under Win95 but nearly 
:>nothing under OS/2.  No system sounds.  Won't play CD's.  Only sound 
:>is running the PLAY program with testirq.exe -- which is just high 
:>pitched fast unintelligible sound -- "chipmunk sounds".  Ideas?  Does 
:>the DOS setup program set switches for the interrupts on the board 
:>itself?	

What I use in my config.sys:
DEVICE=C:\MMOS2\MVPRODD.SYS /I:10 /D:5 /S:1,220,1,5 /N:PAS161$
uses IRQ 10 ,sets soundblaster to use IRQ 5 
LPT1 generally uses IRQ 7 which is also the default value for the soundblaster
side of the card.

Autoexec.bat:
Set blaster=a220 d1 i5 T3 uses SB in Winos2,dos

Perhaps there's an IRQ conflict,type  rmview /irq from an OS2 prompt. The dos
program will setup the card as you mentioned.

-john ross

http://www.oxford.net/~jkross

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From: mcbrides@erols.com                                23-Nov-99 06:55:07
  To: All                                               23-Nov-99 19:58:05
Subj: Re: OS2ASPI problem

From: mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride)

In article <1Dh_3.9$cU2.1173@news2.giganews.com>,
remove-this-firsrt-scole@texas.net wrote:
>I recently purchased a Yamaha CDRW4416SZ.  Works great under Linux, but
>I am having problems under OS/2 using 'cdrecord'.
>
>The reason is cdrecord needs os2aspi to be loaded in config.sys with the
>'/all' option.  This locks up my OS/2 system on bootup - never gets past
>the OS/2 Logo.  It just sits there.  If I add /SHARE to it then it still
locks.
>If I don't add '/all' to it then all goes well.
>
>Does anyone know why it might be locking up?
>

A shot in the dark here... but could there be a conflict between resources
going on? Two or more cards using the same IRQ, DMA or PORT?

>I am using an Adaptec 2940UW with 2 SCSI HD's and 2 CD-ROMS.  I know it
>isn't the Yamaha drive causing it because I can disconnect it and it still
locks,
>so it seems to be something else.
>

I've been using an OLD AHA1522b for a LONG time now with a sorts of devices
plugged into it and... no problems. One of the last devices to be plugged into
the scsi chain was a 4416s... Never was a problem.

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From: nospam_madbrain@thetaband.com                     23-Nov-99 05:04:15
  To: All                                               24-Nov-99 03:57:03
Subj: Re: Trap 000e with Crystal 4237B

From: nospam_madbrain@thetaband.com

Stephen,

May I suggest MMPack at http://www.thetaband.com ?
It includes an enhanced MPU401 driver and an MMCheck utility to diagnose OS/2
multimedia problems.

In <3839CC11.13ED059D@e-mail.com>, on 11/22/99 
   at 11:08 PM, "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)"
<operagost@e-mail.com> said:

>I have a Turtle Beach Malibu Surround which used to work fine, but now
>whenever I play a MIDI file, either from Netscape or any other program, after
>I exit the player it causes a Trap 000e in CWMPU1$. I think it might have
>been caused by the latest version of the generic Crystal drivers I'm using.
>Here's my config.sys:

>BASEDEV=CWAUDIO.SYS /N:BSAUD1$ /X1:100 /X2:100 /LCAPT:X1X2
>DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\CWVAUDIO.SYS BSAUD1$
>DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\CWMPU401.SYS /O:ONLYONE /O:LONGNAME /O:MULTIIRQ /O:MULTIIO
>/O:16BITS /N:CWMPU1$

>I would go back to an earlier version, but I don't have it anymore and can't
>find it. The generic MPU401 driver doesn't work, either.

>I have Warp 4 with FP 12.

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Theta Band Software LLC     http://www.thetaband.com
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From: dmckenn@attglobal.net                             23-Nov-99 22:07:08
  To: All                                               24-Nov-99 03:57:03
Subj: Re: MMM+ Removal ???

From: "David McKenna" <dmckenn@attglobal.net>

On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:53:42 GMT, swansona@fastwave.net wrote:

>	How can one check to be sure a MMM+ is fully removed from a Warp 4 
>system?  I think I got the UNINSTALL to work by tricking the install 
>program to load, then selecting UNINSTALL.  I am having great 
>difficulty getting a PAS card to work now: no system sounds, will not 
>play audio CD's.   I wonder if the problem could be anything left over
>from the MMM+.  Will removing and re-installing the MultiMedia from 
>Warp itself get rid of it?  I am reluctant to do that and get rid of 
>3-years worth of FixPaks just to test the approach.

    By far, the most direct way is to remove OS/2 Multimedia, reboot, then
delete the MMOS2 folder, then re-install.

   Even though you have to re-install fixpacks, in the end this will most
likely be the fastest way.

Dave McKenna



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From: Frank.Berke@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de                 24-Nov-99 13:09:24
  To: All                                               24-Nov-99 10:35:07
Subj: Re: Building AMD Athalon System - OS/2 Compatible Components?

From: Frank.Berke@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Frank Berke)

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:42:06, "Jim Davie" <jimdavie@tampabay.rr.com> 
wrote:

> are supported under OS/2 Warp 4.  (I have checked the Device Driver Site,
> and confirmed the Video and audio should be fine).
I can't remember *any* nVidia Chip working fine under OS/2, as for 
your audio card I don't know. AFAIK the only way getting an nVidia 
based video card to work is the SDD (or the slow generic GRADD), but 
even with SDD you can't access refresh rates above 60Hz. Maybe you'll 
get full support with the next beta (must be #10). If you want to 
start with your system immediately you should better look for another 
video card - Matrox is always a good choice, ATI is also partially 
supported.
On a friend's machine the Diamond (V550, 16Megs) didn't perform well 
on a VIA based motherboard Asus P5A. Diamond has a *very* lousy driver
support for its products and the only way we cured the several problem
(OGL Games didn't run in >800x600, unforeseeable crashes of OGL Games 
etc.) was installing the latest version of nVidia's reference driver, 
called Detonator. The drivers on Diamond's web site are still dated 
March 1999!!!!
Elsa, for example, spends much more efforts into its drivers, almost 
any other company except Diamond does so.
I must admit, that you won't encounter such problems, if you're not 
using Windoze, but if you don't why then buy a video card with 32 
Megs? That's the total overkill in OS/2...

Regards,
----------------------------------------------
Frank Berke, Bochum, Germany
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/frank.berke
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From: remove-this-firsrt-scole@texas.net                24-Nov-99 19:09:22
  To: All                                               24-Nov-99 16:50:17
Subj: Re: OS2ASPI problem

From: remove-this-firsrt-scole@texas.net

In <jCoO48D5wGHU090yn@erols.com>, mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) writes:

>A shot in the dark here... but could there be a conflict between resources
>going on? Two or more cards using the same IRQ, DMA or PORT?

Nope.

>I've been using an OLD AHA1522b for a LONG time now with a sorts of devices
>plugged into it and... no problems. One of the last devices to be plugged
into
>the scsi chain was a 4416s... Never was a problem.

Yea, I've been running this same configuration now for 9 months.  It is only
now
that I've ever tried loading OS2ASPI.  I'll probably just stick with Linux for 
the
CD burning.

Thanks for the response!

-- Ray Cole

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From: jkrim@ecrix.com                                   24-Nov-99 14:02:12
  To: All                                               24-Nov-99 16:50:17
Subj: YMF-924 PCI audio under WARP GA

From: Jordan Krim <jkrim@ecrix.com>

In the IBM driver repsoitory is a driver for YMF-924 audio.  It is
listed as only for WARP 4.0.
I seem to have this audio built in on my motherboard.  I installed the
file PCIYMF.EXE using minstall
under WARP GA (3.0) but it doesn't work.  Is there an audio driver that
works for WARP GA for this
type of hardware?


Jordan Krim
jkrim@mho.net
jkrim@ecrix.com

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From: luc.vanbogaert.nospam@pandora.be                  24-Nov-99 23:31:15
  To: All                                               24-Nov-99 19:59:02
Subj: Re: MIDI player available?

From: "Luc Van Bogaert" <luc.vanbogaert.nospam@pandora.be>

On 23 Nov 1999 20:40:53 GMT, e-frog wrote:

>What sound card do you have?
>
>I know that there is a whole pack of utilites for the SB32, one of which
>is a very nice looking MIDI player with the features you want. 
>
>I don't know if it will work for other sound cards, but it's free. Grab it
>off Creative's site. You can delete the portions you don't want.

Wouldn't you know I have a SB32 :-) I'm off to the creative site. Thanks


Luc Van Bogaert
  I was at Warpstock '99...
    Visit www.warpstock.org for the most important OS/2 event of the year


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From: laniear@pacificnet.net                            24-Nov-99 18:19:24
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 03:28:22
Subj: CFM Twain drivers vs AdvanSys SCSI controller

From: laniear@pacificnet.net

I have a UMAX 1200S scanner and bought the CFM Twain drivers after
buying it (I already owned PMView).  No matter what I do I can't get the
scanner to work with that combination.  The sample scanning program
which comes with the CFM drivers (SwOS2) doesn't work either.

I got an e-mail from the developer saying that it wouldn't work with the
AdvanSys SCSI controller.  I am sure that I saw at least three posts
here several months ago from people indicating that they were using this
combination quite happily.  Any help would be appreciated.

BTW, the scanner works great in NT, but I don't bootup NT very often,
it's very cumbersome going back and forth.

Thanks,

Lee


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From: operagost@e-mail.com                              25-Nov-99 02:26:10
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 03:28:22
Subj: Re: Trap 000e with Crystal 4237B

From: "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" <operagost@e-mail.com>


nospam_madbrain@thetaband.com wrote:
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> May I suggest MMPack at http://www.thetaband.com ?
> It includes an enhanced MPU401 driver and an MMCheck utility to diagnose
OS/2
> multimedia problems.

Thanks! The enhanced driver seems to have solved the problem. However, MMCheck
didn't find any problems. I don't understand why the thing stopped working
properly at all. I'm afraid it might really the sound card, because I've tried
to use Cakewalk Pro Audio 7 under Win95 and Cakewalk HS under OS/2 and neither
one works properly with my keyboard. Basically it's acting like it's losing
most of the note start commands.
> 
> In <3839CC11.13ED059D@e-mail.com>, on 11/22/99
>    at 11:08 PM, "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)"
> <operagost@e-mail.com> said:
> 
> >I have a Turtle Beach Malibu Surround which used to work fine, but now
> >whenever I play a MIDI file, either from Netscape or any other program,
after
> >I exit the player it causes a Trap 000e in CWMPU1$. I think it might have
> >been caused by the latest version of the generic Crystal drivers I'm using.
> >Here's my config.sys:
> 
> >BASEDEV=CWAUDIO.SYS /N:BSAUD1$ /X1:100 /X2:100 /LCAPT:X1X2
> >DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\CWVAUDIO.SYS BSAUD1$
> >DEVICE=E:\MMOS2\CWMPU401.SYS /O:ONLYONE /O:LONGNAME /O:MULTIIRQ /O:MULTIIO
> >/O:16BITS /N:CWMPU1$
> 
> >I would go back to an earlier version, but I don't have it anymore and
can't
> >find it. The generic MPU401 driver doesn't work, either.
> 
> >I have Warp 4 with FP 12.
> 
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Julien Pierre               http://www.madbrain.com
> Theta Band Software LLC     http://www.thetaband.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
----------------------------------
         Stephen Eickhoff
          Havertown, PA
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From: tsipple@us.iNoSPAMbm.com                          24-Nov-99 23:47:18
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 03:28:23
Subj: Re: PCI soundcard for OS/2

From: Timothy Sipples <tsipple@us.iNoSPAMbm.com>

Stan Goodman wrote:
> > >Can someone recommend a PCI soundcard that supports full-duplex operation
> > >(for telephony), for which OS/2 drivers are available?
> > TRY:
http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/SalesNav?partnum=33L5134&cntry=84
0&lang=en_US
> Many thanks; an interesting page. Perhaps the most notable detail is that
> it makes no mention whatever of available drivers and the OSs supported.

Actually, it does.

See:

http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/prodspecs.d2w/report?pa
rtnum=33L5134&merchant_rn=1&priceType=IBM&cntry=840&lang=en_US

for the product specifications.

It's a nice PCI audio adapter which supports OS/2 Warp.

-- 
Timothy Sipples
IBM Network Computing Software
Chicago, Illinois
Web: http://www.satdirect.com/aviation

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From: dunmunro@direct.ca                                25-Nov-99 05:55:24
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 03:28:23
Subj: Re: Building AMD Athalon System - OS/2 Compatible Components?

From: dunmunro@direct.ca (Duncan Munro)

I am using a Diamond Viper V550. The Nvidia GRADD drivers are very
fast and stable, but they have problems running full screen OS/2
sessions and xfree86-os2. Specifically, the mouse cursor vanishes when
run in a full screen session.

Duncan

On 24 Nov 1999 13:09:49 GMT, Frank.Berke@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Frank
Berke) wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:42:06, "Jim Davie" <jimdavie@tampabay.rr.com> 
>wrote:
>
>> are supported under OS/2 Warp 4.  (I have checked the Device Driver Site,
>> and confirmed the Video and audio should be fine).
>I can't remember *any* nVidia Chip working fine under OS/2, as for 
>your audio card I don't know. AFAIK the only way getting an nVidia 
>based video card to work is the SDD (or the slow generic GRADD), but 
>even with SDD you can't access refresh rates above 60Hz. Maybe you'll 
>get full support with the next beta (must be #10). If you want to 
>start with your system immediately you should better look for another 
>video card - Matrox is always a good choice, ATI is also partially 
>supported.
>On a friend's machine the Diamond (V550, 16Megs) didn't perform well 
>on a VIA based motherboard Asus P5A. Diamond has a *very* lousy driver
>support for its products and the only way we cured the several problem
>(OGL Games didn't run in >800x600, unforeseeable crashes of OGL Games 
>etc.) was installing the latest version of nVidia's reference driver, 
>called Detonator. The drivers on Diamond's web site are still dated 
>March 1999!!!!
>Elsa, for example, spends much more efforts into its drivers, almost 
>any other company except Diamond does so.
>I must admit, that you won't encounter such problems, if you're not 
>using Windoze, but if you don't why then buy a video card with 32 
>Megs? That's the total overkill in OS/2...
>
>Regards,
>----------------------------------------------
>Frank Berke, Bochum, Germany
>http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/frank.berke
>----------------------------------------------

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From: jimdavie@tampabay.rr.com                          25-Nov-99 08:35:20
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 05:15:15
Subj: Help with Building AMD Athalon Based OS/2 System (Round 2)

From: "Jim Davie" <jimdavie@tampabay.rr.com>

UPDATE:  Thanks to everyone that posted a reply to the newsgroups or my
email on this query for compatibility help with OS/2 Warp 4.

Based on your feedback, I've updated the list.  The only component I'm not
sure of is the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card.  If
anyone knows for certain if this card is supported under Warp, please let me
know.  I'm not too concerned since I have another PC with a SB AWE32 which I
can swap out with the SB Live! card.

Any yeah or na to anything listed below would be greatly appreciated!!

Asus K7M Athalon motherboard
AMD 500 or 550 Athalon CPU
Athalon Heatsink/CPU Cooler w/Ball Bearing Fan
Micron 128MB SDRAM - Cas2, 6 layer PCB
In-Win EN7237 Case with Powerman 300 Watt power supply
Alps 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
Matrox G400 AGP Video with 32MB
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value
IBM Deskstar 22GXP (13GB Ultra 66)
3Com Fast Etherlink XL (3C905TX)
Toshiba 40X ATAPI EIDE CD-Rom Drive

Thanks!


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From: foerster@ipf.uni-stuttgart.de                     25-Nov-99 15:50:21
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 14:28:23
Subj: Creative ISA-Soundcard 16 BIT PNP

From: Wolfgang Foerster <foerster@ipf.uni-stuttgart.de>

Hi,
i have a creative labs soundcard "soundblaster 16 bit PnP with Vibra
chip". The card is about 1 year old and there is up to now no chance to
get this working on Warp 4. Has anybody an idea?

Thanks a lot
WF

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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com                             25-Nov-99 14:56:04
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 14:28:23
Subj: Re: MMM+ Removal ???

From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson)

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 03:07:17, "David McKenna" <dmckenn@attglobal.net> 
wrote:

>     By far, the most direct way is to remove OS/2 Multimedia, reboot, then
> delete the MMOS2 folder, then re-install.
 
>    Even though you have to re-install fixpacks, in the end this will most
> likely be the fastest way.

I've done that before and it's very fast because for say FP 40 the
multimedia updates are only about 3 of the 20 disks.  So as long as you
have a set of FP disks for your current installation it's not a big
problem.

                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

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From: Frank.Berke@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de                 25-Nov-99 15:26:06
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 14:28:23
Subj: Re: Help with Building AMD Athalon Based OS/2 System (Round 2)

From: Frank.Berke@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Frank Berke)

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 08:35:41, "Jim Davie" <jimdavie@tampabay.rr.com> 
wrote:

Hi,
> Asus K7M Athalon motherboard
The German computer magazine c't has tested five Athlon boards in its 
recent edition: in performance they are all just the same, but 
currently there are only Biostar and FIC offering support for their 
products. Neither Asus, nor MSI, nor Gigabyte give you more than BIOS 
upgrades...

> AMD 500 or 550 Athalon CPU
Get the Athlon 500, since 50 MHz is not worth the current difference 
in price...

> Micron 128MB SDRAM - Cas2, 6 layer PCB
Be sure to get the patch from Daniela Engert to enable OS/2 
recognizing memory amounts above 64MB (patchldr.zip on Hobbes): have a
beer while studying the readme ;-)

> Alps 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive
Just any will do. Get the cheapest as they are not as stable anymore 
as in former times.

> Matrox G400 AGP Video with 32MB
No chance to benefit from 32MB if you're only working with OS/2. If 
you play games supporting this amount of memory, it might be useful.

> Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value
No idea about Creative Cards. They stopped supporting OS/2 a long time
ago and there's hardly any chance to get their recent PCI cards to 
work within OS/2. Better look for something based on a Crystal CODEC, 
the only company I know still offering good support for OS/2.

> IBM Deskstar 22GXP (13GB Ultra 66)
Use DANIS506 instead of IBM1S506 driver after installation and be sure
to patch your setup diskettes before installation.

Regards,
----------------------------------------------
Frank Berke, Bochum, Germany
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/frank.berke
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From: sfactual@erols.com                                25-Nov-99 11:41:04
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 14:28:24
Subj: Re: Creative ISA-Soundcard 16 BIT PNP

From: Jon Schuck <sfactual@erols.com>

I've used this card for years in Warp 3, then Warp 4.  works just fine.
the selective install utility should detect it, and install base drivers.
If you already have an audio card installed, you may need to uninstall it
and delete the drivers manually from the mmos directory.  if you delete the
mmos directory, you'll have to reinstall, no big deal though.  don't forget
to reapply fixpacks if you reinstall mmos.

incedentally, i also had this card and a sb32 installed at the same time.
the selective install utility allocated all the correct resources, but I
had to manually edit the driver line to include both cards.  took a little
work, but got rich sound in winos2 and os/2.  well worth it.

Wolfgang Foerster wrote:

> Hi,
> i have a creative labs soundcard "soundblaster 16 bit PnP with Vibra
> chip". The card is about 1 year old and there is up to now no chance to
> get this working on Warp 4. Has anybody an idea?
>
> Thanks a lot
> WF

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From: sfactual@erols.com                                25-Nov-99 11:48:09
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 14:28:24
Subj: Re: PAS install ???

From: Jon Schuck <sfactual@erols.com>

i've installed four of these cards in different machines, never the slightest
hitch.

get rid of the sb part of the card in the driver line (rem and copy), and make 
sure it
works in base os/2.  then add winos2 back.  don't forget, you have to load
native
winos2 sound blaster drivers for the sb side.  there is a slight trick in
getting dos
and winos2 all working, but not too bad.

swansona@fastwave.net wrote:

>                 I am trying to install a Media Vision Pro Audio Studio board 
(whith
> SCSI) -- PAS board.   So far, No Go!  Works under Win95 but nearly
> nothing under OS/2.  No system sounds.  Won't play CD's.  Only sound
> is running the PLAY program with testirq.exe -- which is just high
> pitched fast unintelligible sound -- "chipmunk sounds".  Ideas?  Does
> the DOS setup program set switches for the interrupts on the board
> itself?

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From: t_am@gmx.de                                       25-Nov-99 18:49:26
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 19:46:19
Subj: Re: Help with Building AMD Athalon Based OS/2 System (Round 2)

From: t_am@gmx.de (Timo Maier)

Hi Jim Davie!

>Asus K7M Athalon motherboard
Make sure, that the heatsink is not too big because the k7m power supply is
very close to the slot A

>AMD 500 or 550 Athalon CPU
Take a 500 and set the k7m FSB to 110, so you have 550.

>Matrox G400 AGP Video with 32MB
16MB is enought.

>Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value
Not supported

The rest seems to be ok.

TAM
-- 
OS/2 Warp4, Ducati 750SS '92
http://www.privat.toplink.de/homepages/thunder
Remove "_" for eMail reply

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From: 66Olds@email.msn.com                              25-Nov-99 17:06:03
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 19:46:19
Subj: OPTi 82c931

From: "DJR" <66Olds@email.msn.com>

Just installed the drivers for this sound card and I am getting very muted
sound under OS/2 Warp 4 (works fine under os/s-win). I can turn the volume
setting all the way up in the system sounds notebook but has no effect to
the actual volume. Also I noticed that in the mmos.ini file that the master
volume was set to 0. Is this my problem or something else? Thanks to all who
respond.

--
Dave Rutledge


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From: as@sci.fi                                         23-Nov-99 19:25:26
  To: All                                               25-Nov-99 21:46:01
Subj: Re: Building AMD Athalon System - OS/2 Compatible Components?

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

"Jim Davie" <jimdavie@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

> Diamond Viper V770 AGP Video with 32MB (TNT2)
> Diamond Monster Sound MX300

These might not work very well. Nvidia has some TNT drivers, but I
don't know if they work with the Diamond. Scitech Display Doctor
provides at least unaccelerated support as do GRADD drivers.

I don't know if there are any drivers for the MX300.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: miket@interact.net.au                             25-Nov-99 12:13:16
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 10:42:22
Subj: Re: Building AMD Athalon System - OS/2 Compatible Components?

From: miket@interact.net.au    (Michael Taylor)

dunmunro@direct.ca (Duncan Munro) writes:
> I am using a Diamond Viper V550. The Nvidia GRADD drivers are very
> fast and stable, but they have problems running full screen OS/2
> sessions and xfree86-os2. Specifically, the mouse cursor vanishes when
> run in a full screen session.
> 

I have the XFree86/2 problem but full screen OS/2 sessions seem to be Okay.
Anyway the Scitech Display Doctor drivers do work okay (with the limitations
I exaplined in another post).

--
Regards,                    Michael Taylor
Mike                        miket@interact.net.au
-------------------------------------------------
  Home Page: http://users.interact.net.au/~pmiy
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From: miket@interact.net.au                             25-Nov-99 12:11:26
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 10:42:22
Subj: Re: Building AMD Athalon System - OS/2 Compatible Components?

From: miket@interact.net.au    (Michael Taylor)

Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> writes:
> "Jim Davie" <jimdavie@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > Diamond Viper V770 AGP Video with 32MB (TNT2)
> > Diamond Monster Sound MX300
> 
> These might not work very well. Nvidia has some TNT drivers, but I
> don't know if they work with the Diamond. Scitech Display Doctor
> provides at least unaccelerated support as do GRADD drivers.
> 

The Viper V770 works fine. The nVidia drivers do limit you to 60Hz refresh
rates but the Scitech drivers will allow more than that (although the
Beta 9 drivers didn't properly recoqnise the V770 and fellback to VBE 1.2
support - still good but also limited to 60Hz. However I sent the 
details to Kendall Bennett at Scitech and he has fixed the problem (in beta 10
which I haven't seen yet).

> I don't know if there are any drivers for the MX300.
> 

There aren't. However the linux drivers are being released in source. I
have this card (in the second Win98 Kids PC!) and had to use the old SB16
instead.

--
Regards,                    Michael Taylor
Mike                        miket@interact.net.au
-------------------------------------------------
  Home Page: http://users.interact.net.au/~pmiy
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From: foerster@ipf.uni-stuttgart.de                     26-Nov-99 10:29:19
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 10:42:22
Subj: Re: Creative ISA-Soundcard 16 BIT PNP

From: Wolfgang Foerster <foerster@ipf.uni-stuttgart.de>

Thank You for the tips. But I think that I have a problem with the new card. I
lent me an old SB16 card which worked fine. But the new one won't in OS/2 (no
hardware error, it works in Windows-Systems). The problem i think is the Vibra
Chip with the extension CX.



Jon Schuck schrieb:

> I've used this card for years in Warp 3, then Warp 4.  works just fine.
> the selective install utility should detect it, and install base drivers.
> If you already have an audio card installed, you may need to uninstall it
> and delete the drivers manually from the mmos directory.  if you delete the
> mmos directory, you'll have to reinstall, no big deal though.  don't forget
> to reapply fixpacks if you reinstall mmos.
>
> incedentally, i also had this card and a sb32 installed at the same time.
> the selective install utility allocated all the correct resources, but I
> had to manually edit the driver line to include both cards.  took a little
> work, but got rich sound in winos2 and os/2.  well worth it.
>
> Wolfgang Foerster wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > i have a creative labs soundcard "soundblaster 16 bit PnP with Vibra
> > chip". The card is about 1 year old and there is up to now no chance to
> > get this working on Warp 4. Has anybody an idea?
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> > WF

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From: maxikins@os2bbs.com                               26-Nov-99 11:31:10
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 10:42:22
Subj: Re: Creative ISA-Soundcard 16 BIT PNP

From: maxikins@os2bbs.com (Mark Klebanoff)

I remember reading here many times that there are no OS/2 drivers for 
the Vibra chip set.  My old (pre-vibra) SoundBlaster 16 non PnP has 
worked fine in 3 different computers running both Warp 3 and 4

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:29:38, Wolfgang Foerster 
<foerster@ipf.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> Thank You for the tips. But I think that I have a problem with the new card. 
I
> lent me an old SB16 card which worked fine. But the new one won't in OS/2
(no
> hardware error, it works in Windows-Systems). The problem i think is the
Vibra
> Chip with the extension CX.
> 
> 
> 
> Jon Schuck schrieb:
> 
> > I've used this card for years in Warp 3, then Warp 4.  works just fine.
> > the selective install utility should detect it, and install base drivers.
> > If you already have an audio card installed, you may need to uninstall it
> > and delete the drivers manually from the mmos directory.  if you delete
the
> > mmos directory, you'll have to reinstall, no big deal though.  don't
forget
> > to reapply fixpacks if you reinstall mmos.
> >
> > incedentally, i also had this card and a sb32 installed at the same time.
> > the selective install utility allocated all the correct resources, but I
> > had to manually edit the driver line to include both cards.  took a little
> > work, but got rich sound in winos2 and os/2.  well worth it.
> >
> > Wolfgang Foerster wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > i have a creative labs soundcard "soundblaster 16 bit PnP with Vibra
> > > chip". The card is about 1 year old and there is up to now no chance to
> > > get this working on Warp 4. Has anybody an idea?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot
> > > WF
> 


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From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net                 25-Nov-99 13:02:18
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 14:27:21
Subj: Re: PCI soundcard for OS/2

From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum)

Timothy Sipples <tsipple@us.iNoSPAMbm.com> wrote:

>...
>> it makes no mention whatever of available drivers and the OSs supported.
>
>Actually, it does.
>
>See:
>
>http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/prodspecs.d2w/report?p
artnum=33L5134&merchant_rn=1&priceType=IBM&cntry=840&lang=en_US
>
>for the product specifications.
>
>It's a nice PCI audio adapter which supports OS/2 Warp.
>
>-- 
>Timothy Sipples
>IBM Network Computing Software
>Chicago, Illinois
>Web: http://www.satdirect.com/aviation

Tim, does it support full audio capability in DOS and Win-
OS/2?


-- 
Ray Tennenbaum        '99 YZF-R6
readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: sperber@airmail.net                               26-Nov-99 11:00:13
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 19:59:05
Subj: Re: PAS install ???

From: Darryl Sperber <sperber@airmail.net>

On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:51:03 GMT, swansona@fastwave.net wrote:

>  		I am trying to install a Media Vision Pro Audio Studio board (whith 
>  SCSI) -- PAS board.   So far, No Go!  Works under Win95 but nearly 
>  nothing under OS/2.  No system sounds.  Won't play CD's.  Only sound 
>  is running the PLAY program with testirq.exe -- which is just high 
>  pitched fast unintelligible sound -- "chipmunk sounds".  Ideas?  Does 
>  the DOS setup program set switches for the interrupts on the board 
>  itself?	

Sounds like an IRQ issue.  The default installed is to use IRQ 7 which
generally conflicts with LPT1 (if you have /IRQ specified on the PRINT01.SYS
line in config.sys).  Check your IRQ assignment using RMVIEW. 

My line for the PAS16 is:

DEVICE=G:\MMOS2\MVPRODD.SYS /I:10 /D:7 /N:PAS161$ /S:1,220,1,5 /T:0 /F:1 /J:0

I've got the card in 3 machines, running Win98/WarpConnect/Warp4 with no
problems on any of them.


Also, you don't indicate what release of Warp you're running.  3?  4?

If you're running Warp 4, and NOT requiring VoiceType (probably the case), I'd
recommend strongly using the Warp 3 version of the MVPRODD.SYS driver.  It has
much more beautiful sound than the Warp 4 version (e.g. for playing audio CDs
through good speakers), and also allows you to use mixers (e.g. Minimix, which
is the absolute best mixer for the PAS16) to adjust everything.

If you need the Warp 3 driver, email me and I'll email it back to you.


--
//
//   Darryl Sperber  (sperber@airmail.net)
//

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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com                             26-Nov-99 22:26:12
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 19:59:05
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)

From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson)

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:12:27, Jim Danvers <jim.danvers@mindex.com> wrote:

> I just installed Warp 3 (blue spine) and am trying (hoping) to get audio
> running on this box - it has a Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI 128 card in
> it and I have not been able to locate any info on getting it running as
> yet.  I'm dual booting this box @present w/Win95 and the audio card works
> fine.
 
> Anyone have any pointers or suggestions?

I doubt that this will help you but I found a solution to one aspect of
running two audio cards with windozes98 and OS/2 (W31 and Linux too).

I have two sets of amplified speakers.  So I can use to two output lines
(front and rear) of a SoundBlaster Live under W98.  I use a PAS16 for
OS/2. The problem was playing audio CD's under the different os's.

Solution: My CDROM has a digital out and an analog out.  I use the
digital out for the SBLive and the analog out for the PAS16.

                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

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From: t_am@gmx.de                                       26-Nov-99 18:36:29
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 19:59:05
Subj: Re: Help with Building AMD Athalon Based OS/2 System (Round 2)

From: t_am@gmx.de (Timo Maier)

Hi Christian!

>AOpen has the AW320 PCI card for example. It's using a Crystal
[...]
>wavetable and is quite cheap here.
Here? In Germany? No chance to get this baby in Germany!

>manufacturer has heavily modified the specs and the Aureal drivers won't
>work (i.e. Terratec Xlerate).
Ahhh ...  are you sure? I just ordered a XLarate, because I couldn't get a
AW320 ):

TAM
-- 
OS/2 Warp4, Ducati 750SS '92
http://www.privat.toplink.de/homepages/thunder
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From: nx2000@bellsouth.net                              26-Nov-99 17:39:21
  To: All                                               26-Nov-99 19:59:05
Subj: Stupid Aureal Vortex 1 Question (DOS Sound)

From: Don Morris <nx2000@bellsouth.net>

Hey guys --

I've got a Vortex 1 chipset soundcard in my box here (Warp4, FP12),
that replaced a SB AWE64 I used before. When I originally installed
it, I think the drivers were half confused (I had to manually edit
the mmpm.ini file) -- but the good thing was that I had sound in
VDMs just fine and dandy.

Now a few months later, I've reinstalled OS/2 (due to what turned
out to be a mboard glitch, but I didn't know that yet. :), and
installed the Vortex1 drivers from Aureal (v1.0) on a clean system.
OS/2 sound works fine, _except_ that I can't persuade the DOS boxes
to use the "Legacy SBPro" mode that used to work.

Anyone else out there use this card and have this working? Or did
I just somehow luck out the first time and have the confused MMPM
somehow route SB64 requests to the Vortex :)

Thanks for any response,
Don

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