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Old September 1st 03, 11:28 PM
El Deevo
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Default DOS Drivers for Audigy 2

Hi good people.

I am trying to run sound under DOS 6.22 with my Soundblaster Audigy 2 card.
After a fair amount of searching on the web I have not had any success with
drivers that can do this. Has anyone in this forum ever come across such a
beast in either an experimental/beta form or officially? If so, where did
you see them?


Thanks,
Steve


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Old September 1st 03, 11:36 PM
Lawrence Stromski
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I don't know for certain that there arn't any Dos drivers for the Audigy 2,
there definately arn't any official ones.

The Audigy2 and most other modern Creative cards should run ok as
Soundblaster 100% compatible or Soundblaster Pro 100% compatible under Dos.
Try an old set of SB generic drivers. Obviously you ain't gonna get EAX,
Dolby or any of the flash crap, and it will probably only run two channels,
but it'll get it working.
Failing the generic SB drivers, dig out the ESS Solo, Roland and any other
old generic drivers you can. There are a few historical sites on the net
offering them up. You'll also need to go through your config.sys and
autoexec.bat and tweak that up to make it work. There is plenty of
documentation for that on the net too.

It's like trying to put a Turbo-charger for a Jaguar into a Ford Fiesta....
it ain't gonna work well. :-)

Hope that helps!

-Lawrence Stromski.


"El Deevo" wrote in message
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Hi good people.

I am trying to run sound under DOS 6.22 with my Soundblaster Audigy 2

card.
After a fair amount of searching on the web I have not had any success

with
drivers that can do this. Has anyone in this forum ever come across such

a
beast in either an experimental/beta form or officially? If so, where did
you see them?


Thanks,
Steve




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Old September 2nd 03, 04:57 AM
El Deevo
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It's like trying to put a Turbo-charger for a Jaguar into a Ford
Fiesta....
it ain't gonna work well. :-)

Hope that helps!

-Lawrence Stromski.


Thanks Lawrence. I'll give it a go but I think the last time I tried to put
older Sound Blaster drivers in it kicked up a stink about the BASE I/O and
IRQ on all of the usual settings. I think the card has to assume these
resource settings somehow.....But I'm not sure how to do this.

Steve


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Old September 2nd 03, 03:26 PM
Lawrence Stromski
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In most cases, the card will assume the resource settings assigned to it by
the BIOS.
Take a look at your bios settings, (F1, F2, DEL, INS, F10, F11, ESC or F12
on startup usually.) you'll need to figure out which PCI slot the sound
card is in, and you should at least have some control over what resource
settings it has.
You can then use these in your autoexec.bat and drivers.

Be careful about IRQ and other resource conflicts in DOS. (Windows XP will
deal with anything, DOS won't.)

Lawrence.


"El Deevo" wrote in message
...
It's like trying to put a Turbo-charger for a Jaguar into a Ford

Fiesta....
it ain't gonna work well. :-)

Hope that helps!

-Lawrence Stromski.


Thanks Lawrence. I'll give it a go but I think the last time I tried to

put
older Sound Blaster drivers in it kicked up a stink about the BASE I/O and
IRQ on all of the usual settings. I think the card has to assume these
resource settings somehow.....But I'm not sure how to do this.

Steve




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Old September 2nd 03, 06:34 PM
Mike Walsh
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I believe the problem is the Audigy2 is a PCI card and embedded DOS sound drivers are intended for ISA cards. This could be because the defacto DOS standard was Soundblaster using IRQ 5 and address 220. If i recall correctly I saw a thread somewhere about a TSR that allows a PCI card to work with DOS.

Lawrence Stromski wrote:

I don't know for certain that there arn't any Dos drivers for the Audigy 2,
there definately arn't any official ones.

The Audigy2 and most other modern Creative cards should run ok as
Soundblaster 100% compatible or Soundblaster Pro 100% compatible under Dos.
Try an old set of SB generic drivers. Obviously you ain't gonna get EAX,
Dolby or any of the flash crap, and it will probably only run two channels,
but it'll get it working.
Failing the generic SB drivers, dig out the ESS Solo, Roland and any other
old generic drivers you can. There are a few historical sites on the net
offering them up. You'll also need to go through your config.sys and
autoexec.bat and tweak that up to make it work. There is plenty of
documentation for that on the net too.

It's like trying to put a Turbo-charger for a Jaguar into a Ford Fiesta....
it ain't gonna work well. :-)

Hope that helps!

-Lawrence Stromski.

"El Deevo" wrote in message
...
Hi good people.

I am trying to run sound under DOS 6.22 with my Soundblaster Audigy 2

card.
After a fair amount of searching on the web I have not had any success

with
drivers that can do this. Has anyone in this forum ever come across such

a
beast in either an experimental/beta form or officially? If so, where did
you see them?


Thanks,
Steve



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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
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Old September 7th 03, 04:11 AM
William
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I have an old Sound Blaster 1.0 and an AWE64 Gold that may come in handy
for ya if you need it.
 




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