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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

If you liked 'diagnose' you will like:

ftp://ftp.pipeline.com.au/drivers/miscellany/145DSK1.exe and /145DSK2.exe,
self extracting files from Intel (also found at 
http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/gen_ind.htm) which purport to be DOS 
ISA Configuration Utilities for configuring pnp cards with a non-PNP bios.
I have not tried them yet.  I presume once you get a card configured in 
DOS it will work with linux booted via loadlin.

pipeline also has a great collection of old DOS and Win3.1 and Win95 sound 
drivers for ESS 1869, Crystal 4232, Opti 929, Aztech Sound Galaxy (I have 
1-4 of each of these), and under /drivers/Sound_Card/Creative you will 
also find a variety of things which look like ISA configuration managers 
or utilities.  See the index for CTCMBBS CTCMGR CTCU and SB-ICU (the last 
is from Intel, 2MB, and may be the same as the two ICU disks above, the 
others are about 200-400K).  CTCMBBS includes diagnose, it says, and some 
of the others.

I have five CT AWE cards - a Vibra16 CT3930 which works perfectly in DOS 
including AWE initialization, and diagnose finds the added RAM (despite 
there being no jumper to enable it) and tests it and lets me play AWE 
sound.  The Vibra16 is jumpered for io and irq and dma.

Two CT3600 and two AWE64 have no jumpers for the above (I could disable 
mpu on one of them) and do not initialize awe with diagnose and probably 
need to have awe initialized with an ICU (ISA Config. Manager) in DOS or 
with isapnp in linux to play AWE.

They all play AWE sound in Win98, which lists the AWE part in Sound 
(System), but rebooting to DOS loses that initialization.  If you can boot 
linux from a DOS windows in Windows it might stay initialized - I forget 
if you can do so.

All four pnp AWE cards are failing to initialize AWE in DOS, so I will try 
one or more of these ICUs on them.

You don't need to initialize these cards (or other DOS SB ISA cards that I 
have) to play non-midi files, but you probably do to play midi files with 
AWE and, according to David, also to use midi FM synthesis, however, FM 
synthesis works on all of them (except one where it is broken) in DOS so 
it might work in linux too after running DOS diagnose.  I have not tried 
OPL yet.  Diagnose supplies the io addresses.   mpu address is regular io 
plus 400 (620, A20, E20 in Win98).

If any of these programs help I will copy them to my site.

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ken Martwick wrote:

> Thank you. Sindi
> Ken Martwick
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:25:00AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> > At the request of a list member who has an SB16 card I have uploaded my
> > diagnose.exe to http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/diagnose.exe.
> >
> > I have other BL-related files there too, listed in /bl/blfiles.htm  .
> >
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