I'm still working on trying to get audio CD's playing with this sound card, a Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz16 chipset). (The earlier-reported other problems have now all been solved. I have sound in DOOM and in mpxplayer.)
It occurred to me that this might be a cabling issue. The card has a 3-pin audio CD connector instead of the usual 4-pin. But since standard 4-wire cables normally join the two ground wires and connect them to a single pin so that only 3 pins are used, I thought I could make this work easily by just moving a wire in the plug module. But I have now tried connecting the wires to the sound card in every combination (I think), and the two CD players I have been testing with continue to fail in the same way. CD-V complains "Invalid media!" and won't even start. ACP starts, reads and displays all the track information, and acts as if it is playing something, but I get no sound. In case it adds anything, this sound card was often packaged with a Philips 206 CD-ROM drive. I have not found a pinout for the audio CD connection on either the sound card or the CD-ROM drive. My latest thought, however: Does FreeDOS and/or a certain CD player support sending the sound digitally to the sound card over the ribbon cable and the PC bus, the way modern Windows does it? In this case I can dispense with the cable. (I tried just disconnecting the cable and my two current CD players behaved just as before.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
