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

I was able to use Christf's BL3 sound (SB16) package in loop BL3 with the 
folowing cards:

Creative SB16 (but not Vibra16), except one that crashed DOS diagnose.
Audio Excel SB clone, worked in 8-bit and synthesized sound in DOS, did 
not play 16-bit or midis;  in linux plays .wav files
ESS 1868F - worked with 2 cards in linux but not with SB16 in DOS
(One other 1868F and two 1869F's did not work - 'device or resource busy')

What does this 'device or resource busy' signify?  I used the default 
io=220, irq=5, dma=1 settings typical of most CT cards.  How do I 
determine the actual settings?

ALS100 is supposed to be an SB16 clone but my DR-DOS crashes when I try to 
boot DOS with the card in the machine.


I then tried a few other cards, first loading soundcore.o, soundlow.o, 
sound.o.
1.  Opti 930/931 with mad16.o (first uart401 and ad1848) - 'device or 
resource busy'  These are ISA cards and also wanted io irq and dma.
Perhaps I guessed wrong.

2.  Trident PCI card with trident.o (first insmod ac97_cod.o) - 'device or 
resource busy'.  I was not asked to specify addresses but it still did not 
work.



The following PCI cards worked with just sound*.o  and the specific 
driver module:

ESSSOLO 1838S   essolo1.o
Audio PCI5200 Creative as ESS 1373 - es1371.o

So from my limited experience I recommend Creative cards, PCI ESS cards, 
and some ESS Audio Drive cards (maybe all if you can figure out the 
settings).  1868, maybe 1869.

I notice that Christof put the sound modules in their own directory 
instead of misc so I did that too.  Neater.

The 4x4 CD-ROM reader works in linux (first tray) with BL2 but in BL3 I 
cannot get isofs.o to insmod.  cdrom.o and ide-cd.o work.  I forget the 
error message. I followed the recommended order of insmod'ing.  So to 
get at modules I copy them using DOS.  What might be going wrong with 
isofs.o?  Does it not like my drive?


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org