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- From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Re: OS2 and Soundblaster
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.220751.1835@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:07:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep7.145237.29325@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
- pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
- >In article <BEDERS.92Sep7112633@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de> beders@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Jochen Bedersdorfer) writes:
- >>In article <9209031148.AA23388@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> brown-sh@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (shawn c brown) writes:
- >>
- >> Path: sbsvax!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!brown-sh
- >>
- >>> I'm thinking about upgrading my machine to OS2. Is it just some
- >>> games that have trouble with Soundblaster (in OS2 mode) or do they all not
- >>> work???
- >>
- >>
- >>I got no problems with my Soundblaster. Just make sure
- >>to set the IRQ to 5.
- >>There is only one thing that makes me angry:
- >>If I kill a game with Soundblaster-Support, the last played
- >>sound is still there and that doesn~t sound too good.
- >
- >Why does one need to set the IRQ to 5? I think mine is set on 7
- >which is the default (I think).
-
- The IRQ needs to be set to something other than 7 because that is
- the IRQ reserved for LPT1. If you have a printer, you will probably
- get conflicts. BTW, IRQ 5 is reserved for LPT2. You won't have to
- worry about this unless you are using this port, though.
-