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- OSMMWSB.TXT - SOUNDBLASTER SETUP IN WIN-OS/2
- 12/06/94
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- SOUNDBLASTER SETUP IN WIN-OS/2
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-
-
- Before starting this setup, obtain the latest Windows drivers
- from the respective manufacturer. Windows and DOS drivers are
- not compatible with OS/2.
-
- Creative Labs -- BBS (405) 742-6660
-
-
- DOS installation.
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-
- Blaster Environment
-
- 1. Open a DOS FULL SCREEN and run the installation that came with
- the Sound Blaster card.
-
- The directory that gets created depends on the
- Sound Blaster card you have. This example uses the Sound Blaster
- Pro Microchannel. The installation routines say the AUTOEXEC.BAT
- and CONFIG.SYS files will be updated. This may or may not
- happen. The procedures have you update them manually if needed.
-
- 3. You should have a SBPRO directory on the hard disk.
- Open an OS/2 window and type E AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- 4. Add these lines in your AUTOEXEC.BAT in this order, if
- they are not there:
-
- set blaster=Axxx Dx Ix Tx
-
- Axxx - Base I/O address for sound card
- Dx - DMA channel for sound card
- Ix - IRQ value for sound card
- Tx - rev. level of sound card ** check manual **
-
- If MMPM/2 is installed, make sure you are using the
- the latest drivers and also using the same I/O -
- IRQ - DMA value specified in the MMPM/2 device
- driver statement.
-
- X:\ is the drive where SBPRO files are located.
-
- SET SOUND=X:\SBPRO
-
-
- X:\SBPRO\SBP-SET /M:12 /VOC:12 /CD:12 /FM:12
- /LINE:12
-
-
- 5. You should now have sound support in your DOS
- session. Refer to the Sound Blaster documentation
- for the correct line statements in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file.
-
- B. WINOS/2 sound support.
-
- 1. Make sure you get the latest WINDOWS drivers for your
- sound card available from Creative Labs BBS.
- 2. Run the installation for the latest drivers. It may ask
- for the path of you windows directory. If you have
- OS/2 2.1 , for example, the path is:
-
- C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2.
-
- 3. The installation updates the SYSTEM.INI located in the
- OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory.
-
- The Sound Blaster Pro Microchannel and the Sound
- Blaster 16 are used as examples.
-
- 4. Open an OS2 window and go to the OS2\MDOS\WINOS2
- directory and type E SYSTEM.INI.
- 5. Go to the section marked [drivers].
- a. For a Sound Blaster Pro Microchannel you should
- have these statements:
-
- Aux=sbpaux.drv
- Wave=spmcvsnd.drv
- MIDI=sbp2fm.drv
- MIDI1=spmcvsnd.drv
-
- b. For a Sound Blaster 16 you should have these
- statements.
-
- Aux=sb16aux.drv
- Wave=sb16snd.drv
- MIDI=sb16fm.drv
-
- NOTE: Make sure these drivers are located in the
- OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM directory.
-
- 6. Go to the section marked [sndblst.drv]
- a. For a Sound Blaster Pro Microchannel you should
- have these statements:
-
- Port=xxx
- Int=x
- DmaChannel=x
-
- Port=xxx - xxx is the base I/O address
- Int=x - x is the IRQ
- DmaChannell=x - x is the DMA channel
-
- If MMPM/2 is installed make sure you are using
- the latest MMPM/2 drivers for the sound card and
- also the same IRQ . I/O . DMA values .
-
- b. For a Sound Blaster 16 you should have these
- statements:
-
- Port=xxx
- MidiPort=330
- Int=x
- DmaChannel=x
- HDmaChannel=x
-
- Port=xxx - xxx is the base I/O address
- MidiPort=330 - This is standard and can be changed
- to 300
- Int=x - x is the IRQ value
- DmaChannel=x - x is the 8 bit DMA channel
- HDmaChannel=x - x is the 16 bit DMA channel
-
- Make sure SNDBLSTR.DRF is located in the
- OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM directory.
-
- 7. You should now have Sound support in WINOS/2.
-
-
- NOTE: Files located on Creative Labs BBS are subject to change.
- Please contact manufacture for proper location of files on their
- BBS.
-
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