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- Realtek RT2000 Sound System ver:rts20.a1.00
- Software Installation and Setup
-
- DOS and Windows 3.1 Installation for RT2000:
-
- Setup.exe for Windows 3.1:
-
- The Setup.exe is a Windows 3.1 setup program that installs DOS and Windows
- 3.1 drivers and utilities.
-
- The user can run Setup.exe by selecting File \ Run... and typing "A:SETUP" on
- the command line under Windows 3.1 Program Manager, or by typing "A:SETUP" at
- DOS prompt if Windows directory is in the PATH. The Setup.exe copies all the
- DOS drivers and utilities to the directory that user specifies during the
- setup program. All the Windows 3.1 drivers and VxDs are copied to the
- Windows system directory. When the user installs the Realtek Sound System
- for the first time the Alconfig.exe is started to configure the board setting
- after the Setup program is finished.
-
- Dosinst.exe for DOS Only installation:
-
- DOS Installation for RT2000.
-
- The Dosinst.exe is a DOS installation program that copies all the DOS drivers
- and utilities to the directory that user specifies. When the user installs
- the Realtek Sound System for the first time the Rtconfig.exe is started to
- configure the board setting after the Setup program is finished. Dosinst.exe
- can be installed by typing A:Dosinst.exe at the DOS prompt.
-
- Windows 95 installation procedure for RT2000:
-
- 1. After user installs the RT2000 sound card into the ISA slot in the computer
- and powers on the system, Windows 95 will prompt user with a "New Hardware Found"
- dialog box since the RT2000 sound card is ISA plug and play. To install the
- Windows 95 drivers, select "Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer"
- and click on OK.
-
- 2. Insert the "RT2000 DOS/Win3.1/Win 95 Drivers and Utilities" diskette into
- the appropriate drive and select that drive from the prompted dialog box
- and click on OK. Windows 95 will copy all the needed files and set up all
- the logic devices on the board automatically.
-
- 3. Install the RTRACK player by running the Setup.exe file (also provided
- on the "RT2000 DOS/Win3.1/Win 95 Drivers and Utilities" disk) from the
- Windows 95 Start menu. This will create the RT2000 Sound Program Group
- with the RTRACK utility icon. (See Appendix below for full description
- of RTRACK functions).
-
- Troubleshooting:
-
- This appendix provides some tips and information for some of the problems
- you might encounter with your RT2000 sound card either during installation
- or normal use.
-
- Problems in DOS
-
- Problem: Cannot load IDE CD-ROM drive.
- Cause: IDE port is not enabled. Check the config.sys file under
- C: root directory and you should see "device=c:\rtsound
- \cdsetup.sys" before loading your CD-ROM driver. The
- cdsetup.sys enables the IDE port.
- Solution: Run c:\rtsound\rtconfig.exe again and select the CD-ROM
- IDE. When you leave the rtconfig program, device=c:\rtsound
- \cdsetup.sys will be added to config.sys. Make sure
- that this line is before loading the CD-ROM driver.
-
- Problem: No sound in a DOS application
- Cause: There could be conflicts in the SB16 settings.
- Solution: Rerun the c:\rtsound\rtconfig.exe and try another Port,
- DMA, or IRQ.
-
- Problems in Windows 3.1
-
- Problem: There is no "Sound..." or "MIDI Sequencer..." item
- under the menu "Device" in the Media Player. Or
- Mixer application doesn't work.
- Cause: Mixer driver is not loaded.
- Solution: Open the SYSTEM.INI file with any file editor. You
- should see the following:
- [drivers]
- Wave=rtsndsys.drv
- Aux=rtsndsys.drv
- Mixer=rtsndsys.drv
- Midi=rtopl.drv
- Midi1=rtmpu401.drv
-
- [386Enh]
- device=rtsndsys.386
- device=rtopl.386
- device=rtmpu401.386
-
- [boot]
- drivers=mmsystem.dll msmixmgr.dll
-
-
- Problem: Third party mixer application with Sound Blaster compatibility
- will not run with Realtek Sound System.
- Cause: RT2000 Sound System is Microsoft Sound System compatible. Realtek
- does not support previous Sound Blaster Mixer Interface.
- Solution: Use RTRACK.EXE application that is shipped with this disk.
-
-
- Problem: CD audio will not play after the drivers are installed.
- Cause: The user did not install the [MCI]CD-AUDIO driver.
- Solution: Manually add [MCI]CD-AUDIO driver via Control Panel.
-
-
-
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-
- Appendix - Driver Reference:
-
- Windows drivers
- RT2000 has three sets of driver and VxD for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1.
- They are listed below:
-
- Sound System Driver OPL3 Driver MPU401 Driver
- Windows 95 Drivers Rtsndsys.drv Rtopl.drv Rtmpu401.drv
- Windows 95 VxDs Rtsndsys.vxd Rtopl.vxd Rtmpu401.vxd
- Windows 3.1 Drivers Rtsndsys.drv Rtopl.drv Rtmpu401.drv
- Windows 3.1 VxDs Rtsndsys.386 Rtopl.386 Rtmpu401.386
-
- The Realtek Sound System, OPL3, and MPU401 drivers are binary compatible with
- Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 but the VxDs have different binaries for Windows 95
- and Windows 3.1. The Windows 3.1 VxDs have their externsion .386 and the
- Windows 95 VxDs have their externsion .vxd.
-
- The Windows 95 joystick drivers are the Msjstick.drv and Vjoyd.vxd
- that are Microsoft drivers shipped with Windows 95. Besides these
- eight Windows 95 drivers and VxDs, a RT2000.INF file is needed for
- Windows 95 installation.
-
- For Windows 3.1, drivers and VxDs have to be specified in the system.ini
- file and be loaded when the Windows 3.1 starts. The entries listed in below
- should be added to system.ini file by the setup program.
-
- [386Enh] [drivers]
- device = rtsndsys.386 wave = rtsndsys.drv
- device = rtopl.386 mixer = rtsndsys.drv
- device = rtmpu401.386 aux = rtsndsys.drv
- midi = rtopl.drv
- midi1 = rtmpu401.drv
-
- DOS drivers:
- The DOS drivers include Cdsetup.sys, Rtsinit.exe, and Rtconfig.exe.
-
- Cdsetup.sys
- The Cdsetup.sys initializes the CD-ROM IDE port before the CD-ROM driver is
- loaded if the user has a CD-ROM drive attached to the IDE port on the Realtek
- sound board. The Cdsetup.sys is specified in the Config.sys file as below.
- device = C:\Rtsound\Cdsetup.sys
- device = C:\Sony\Atapi_cd.sys /D:SNIDE01
- The Cdsetup.sys is not a TSR program. There is no harm in running this
- program if there is no CD-ROM drive attached to the IDE port on the Realtek
- sound board.
-
- Rtinit.exe
- The Rtinit.exe initializes the Realtek sound chip RT2000. It is specified in
- the Autoexec.bat file followed by a path name as below.
- C:\Rtsound\Rtinit.exe C:\Win31
- Rtinit.exe and Rtconfig.exe use the path that follows the Rtinit.exe in the
- Autoexec.bat to find the initial data file Rtsound.ini. The Rtsound.ini
- file will be copied to the Windows directory or the same directory as
- Rtinit.exe for DOS-only installation. The Windows sound system driver
- Rtsndsys.drv and the Windows sound rack application Rtrack.exe also share
- Rtsound.ini file for initial values.
-
- If the user wishes to enable or disable sound during
- initialization, it may be changed using the option
- value in the Rtsound.ini file:
- [Option]
- PlaySoundAtInitial=No/Yes
-
-
- Rtconfig.exe
- The Rtconfig.exe is a DOS program to help users change the IO, IRQ,
- and DMA resource for the Realtek sound system on board devices and to
- test the new settings through playing the Stest8.wav, Stest16.wav,
- and Fmtest.mid test files. The new settings are saved in the Rtsound.ini
- file which will be used when Rtinit.exe initializes the board.
-
- Information Files:
-
- The is a Windows 95 installation information file for each Realtek sound chip
- product:
- RT2000.INF
- It tell Windows 95 where the drivers should be copied during installation.
- See the instructions above for RT2000 Windows 95 installation.
-
- RTRACK for RT2000
- 1. Structure and components:
- The RTRACK consists of a MIXER control panel, MIDI panel, WAVE panel,
- and CD panel.
- 1.1 To enable or disable a panel:
- Clicking the mouse button on the MIDI, WAVE, or CD in MIXER control panel
- will cause the corresponding panel to disappear, another click will cause the
- corresponding panel to re-appear.
- 1.2 To change a channel:
- Click channel LEFT or RIGHT button to change to the channel you want.
- 1.3 To activate volume and balance control:
- Change to the channel you want (see 1.2), then click up or down arrow buttons
- to change the volume, or click balance LEFT or RIGHT arrow buttons to change balance.
- 1.4 To mute system:
- Change to the channel you want, then click MUTE check mark to disable sound,
- click again to re-enable sound.
-
-
- 2. MIDI panel
- 2.1 To open or close a MIDI file:
- Click the button of the MIDI sign on the MIDI panel, choose OPEN to open a
- MIDI file, or choose CLOSE to close a file.
- 2.2 Auto repeat and show information:
- Click the button of the MIDI sign on MIDI panel. Clicking on AUTO REPEAT or
- SHOW INFORMATION will enable or disable the selection. When AUTO REPEAT is
- selected, the MIDI file will be played again when it reaches the end.
- When SHOW INFORMATION is selected, the MIDI window will open and the
- information from the MIDI file will appear on the MIDI window. When a MIDI
- file is opened, you can also click the MIDI window to show the information of
- that file.
- 2.3 Other operations:
- When a MIDI file is opened, you can click PLAY to play it, or click PAUSE,
- STOP, FF or RW to manipulate the selection. You can also use the volume control
- buttons on the MIDI panel to control the volume directly.
-
-
- 3. WAVE panel
- 3.1 Select TAPE I or TAPE II to playback:
- There are two TAPE boxes on the WAVE panel. TAPE I can only play wave
- files. TAPE II can play and record wave files. There is one set of
- control buttons on the right of WAVE panel. When Tape I is selected,
- the control buttons will take effect for TAPE I. When Tape II is selected,
- the control buttons will work for TAPE II. Click the button
- TAPEI/TAPEII to select between TAPEI or TAPEII, or push the button TAPEI
- PLAYBACK on TAPE I box to select TAPE I, while pushing the button TAPEII REC/PLAY
- on TAPE II box to select TAPEII.
-
- Note: When you want to playback a wave file, you need to select TAPE I/TAPE II first.
-
- 3.2 Open a wave file to play:
- Push the OPEN button, select OPEN on the menu, select a wave
- file to play. When the wave file is opened, the TAPE containing the
- file is automatically selected, just push the PLAY button to play it.
- 3.3 Record a wave file:
- Push the button REC.INPUT to select the input media (Line in, MIDI,
- Audio CD, or MIC), then push the the button OPEN on TAPE II and select NEW
- to create a new wave file. The TAPEII indicator will be red to show it
- is waiting to record. Play the source media, and push recording button on TAPEII
- to begin recording. When finished recording, push the record button (now it is a
- red square) to stop. After finished, save the file as the name you specified.
- 3.5 Synchronous recording (record and play simultaneously):
- After selecting an INPUT media and new wave file for recording, push button
- SYNC.REC to begin a synchronous recording. The mixer will automatically
- play the source file and begin recording at the same time.
-
-
- 4. CD
- 4.1 EDIT and Program:
- Push EDIT to select which tracks (selections on the CD) to play
- and add it to the Playlist. Then click the Program button to play the selected tracks.
- 4.2 Random play:
- The Random button plays tracks in a random order.
- 4.3 Repeat:
- To repeat one track of a CD, select the track and push the repeat button one time.
- A single repeat signal will appear in the CD player window.
- To repeat the full CD, push the repeat button 2 times.
- A full repeat signal will appear in the CD player window.
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