Re: [Freedos-user] ac97 soundchip and drivers
Hi! ac97 driver for dos: http://schneegans.de/computer/dos-soundtreiber/ This page has 2 drivers: - Creative SoundBlaster SB PCI64 works with ES1370 drivers linked there - VIA onboard AC97 chipset supports Adlib/OPL3 with VIAFMTSR linked there Problem with this: Many cards from short after ISA bus are PCI with perfectly working Adlib/OPL3 hardware, for example CMedia or ForteMedia FM801 chips. This however does not give you SB16 DSP, and those chips used workarounds which stopped to work on newer mainboards such as PCIe boards. The VIA chipset has hardware which is close to SB16, and you can enable something in the BIOS (!) to activate it. There is also some small VIAAUDIO driver but this only switches off the mute and turns up the volume setting. However, the VIA chipset has no Adlib, so the VIAFMTSR simulates it... For similar reasons, SB Live and SB PCI soundcards even simulate everything! Nice thing is they work on every mainboard, bad thing is they need EMM386 and not all games can co-exist with the simulator. Last but not least, the schneegans page will not help you for generic AC97. You might be lucky and find some SBLive / SBPCI family soundcard which can be connected to your PC. Eric - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ac97 soundchip and drivers
Travis Siegel wrote: Has anyone fiddled with this kind of a setup? ac97 driver for dos: http://schneegans.de/computer/dos-soundtreiber/ hopefully your chipset is supported. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ac97 soundchip and drivers
Travis Siegel wrote: Has anyone fiddled with this kind of a setup? Google is full of this. I have a laptop (ibm a30) and from what I can tell, it has an AC97 chip in it. More accurate: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:A30 DOS itself doesn't know anything about audio. So it doesn't need any audio drivers. Applications or games wishing to playback sound have to program the hardware directly (or use commercial libraries). This is a very expensive (time and/or money) task, so usually only AdLib, SoundBlaster, and Gravis UltraSound hardware is supported. According to the specs the CS4299 audio chip of the A30 is not compatible to any of the above standards, so you're (currently) out of luck. Japheth (http://www.japheth.de/) told some month ago to write a driver to turn your AC'97 device into a SoundBlaster card, but this is a difficult task and unfortunately I don't see any progress there. More information about sound in DOS: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.SoundCardChip I've not had much luck trying to get the sound working in this machine (or the network, but that's another issue/email) and I was wondering what I can do to get this to behave itself. If you have an Ethernet Daughter Card (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ethernet_Daughter_Card_%28EDC%29) installed, Intel PRO 100 drivers could work. A good DOS networking tutorial is available at http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/. -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
