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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> I had thought about running WP5.1 in dosemu but 
> dosemu has too many other problems.

Do you have glibc 2.2? If so, have you tried the "official"
binaries from the dosemu website?

> > I don't think Alt-F2 does anything if you aren't using virtual
> > terminals. There is a deallocvt program which lets you remove
> > virtual terminals.
> >
> 
> But I DO use virtual terminals - four of them.  chvt can be used 
> instead of Alt-F2.  I am giving up on dosemu for a year or so.

If you used xdosemu, would this prevent the problem? X needs Ctrl
to switch VTs.

> We heard a demo but did not know about MIDI files at the time.  So 
> in order for my downloaded midi files to sound good I should get a 
> grand piano.

Well, if you want them to sound really good, you hire an orchestra to
perform them for you. :)

> Would an electronic keyboard also work?

If it has the proper MIDI ports.

> Despite not having a DMA 5, 6, or 7, the Vibra16X plays 8-bit sound 
> hissy and 16-bit sound much nicer.  Maybe you can play 16-bit but 
> not record 16-bit sound?

Hmm. It seems so. This is very interesting.

> The opti sounded a lot better when we moved the jumpers from 
> speaker to line and turned up the speakers instead.  It has no heat 
> sink.  Loud volumes sounded very buzzy with speaker out.

In other words, classic transistor distortion (when overdriven)?
 
> At one point I got some message (from isapnp?) about 4 bytes of 
> resource conflict at 534.  There was something in teh config file 
> that I got without -rc about minimum irq being 534, but 530 still 
> worked.
> 
> So the solution to getting a pnp card to work is first to run 
> isapnp, comment out the parts you do not want, then look up the 
> correct io setting when nothing listed in the .conf file actually 
> works.

OK. But I don't need any of this, since my two cards work correctly
with the defaults.

> So far, it does not look like there is any need to initialize SB or 
> Opti cards in DOS before using them in linux, or to use isapnp 
> (unless you expect to get the correct settings from it, which I did 
> not).  The exception is playing midis with AWE (and probably with 
> FM synthesis, which I have not tried in linux yet).

The OPL3 needs initialization to work correctly. Also, my Vibra16,
at least, needs isapnp before MPlayer will work.

David

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