On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:01:02 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Just for clarification here, in case I missed the obvious, are you
> installing the sound card [and CD-drive] *in* DOS? Reason I ask is that
> DOS isn't plug'n'pray and you gotta tell it what's where, IRQ, etc.
> In my config.sys I have to have:
> DEVICEHIGH=L:\CDROM\MTMCDAI.SYS /D:MTMIDE01
> if I expect to use the CD to play music or whatever.
> and in my autoexec.bat I have to have:
> CALL C:\DOS\GSOUND.BAT
> LOADHIGH L:\CDROM\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MTMIDE01 /E /V /M:10
> Gsound.bat is a real sample of what does or doesn't work ... I left most
> of my tries in. It may give you some ideas:
> @echo off
> echo Loading sound configuration into environment . . .
> REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 E0 B330 'too much space or DMAs or?
> REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 E0 'didn't work
> REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 'didn't work either
> g:\WIN3.1\ESSCFG.EXE /A:220 /I:5 /D:1 /E:0 /B:330 /J:D
> g:\WIN3.1\ESSVOL.EXE /V:15 /L:15 /W:15 /M:0 /C:15 /S:8 /A:
> SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
> That last line may be one you need??? It has to be run after everything
> else; if you look you'll see that putting it sooner didn't work.
Hi L.D. ... configuration is like this and cd-player is ok but the
BLASTER is not at the last line ... I hope this will do the trick.
Thanks Bastiaan
> Just dealing with PnP is a true pain.
> l.d.
> ====
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:51:25 +0000, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
> <snip>
>> Starting up in DOS only does not install the SoundBlaster card and
>> Arachne is not dialing from the DOS-box due to a lack of memory since
>> win steals a bit of memory.
> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
-- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
