| 1 | SoundBlaster Live! OS/2 Audio driver version 0.25 (beta)
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| 2 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Contents
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| 5 | ========
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| 6 | 1 Description
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| 7 | 2 Features
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| 8 | 3 Requirements
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| 9 | 4 Installation
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| 10 | 5 Config.sys options
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| 11 | 6 Known problems
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| 12 | 7 File listing
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| 13 | 8 Source code
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| 14 | 9 Contacting the author
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| 15 | 9.1 SoundBlaster Live OS/2 mailinglist
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| 16 | 10 Warranty
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| 17 |
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| 18 |
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| 19 | 1 Description
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| 20 | =============
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| 21 | This is the port of the open source Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live Linux audio
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| 22 | driver.
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| 23 | Although the driver is almost feature complete, it should still be considered
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| 24 | beta software. (see the warranty section)
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| 25 |
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| 26 | This work would never have been possible without the support by Creative Labs
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| 27 | and the current maintainers of the Linux driver.
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| 28 |
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| 29 |
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| 30 | 2 Features
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| 31 | ==========
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| 32 | - Up to 32 simultaneous wave playback streams
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| 33 | - One record stream
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| 34 | - Full duplex
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| 35 | - Support for the IOCTL90 mixer interface (designed by Joe Nord of
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| 36 | Crystal Semiconductor and supported by the Crystal OS/2 audio drivers)
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| 37 | - RTMIDI playback & recording (not yet implemented in this release)
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| 38 |
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| 39 |
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| 40 | 3 Requirements
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| 41 | ==============
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| 42 | - OS/2 Warp 4 or Warp Server for e-Business
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| 43 | (Warp 3 not tested)
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| 44 | - Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! soundcard
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| 45 |
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| 46 |
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| 47 | 4 Installation
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| 48 | ==============
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| 49 | - Unzip driver archive
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| 50 | - Run install.cmd
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| 51 | - Select 'SoundBlaster Live! Wave Audio' and continue installation
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| 52 | - Reboot
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| 53 | - During OS/2 boot, press Alt-F1 and select 'Enable Hardware Detection'
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| 54 |
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| 55 |
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| 56 | 5 Config.sys options
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| 57 | ====================
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| 58 | DEVICE=J:\MMOS2\SBLIVE16.SYS /V /C /M /L
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| 59 | - /V: verbose (prints copyrights during driver init)
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| 60 | - /C: enable CD audio input
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| 61 | - /M: enable microphone audio input
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| 62 | - /L: enable linein audio input
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| 63 |
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| 64 | The installation adds the verbose and CD settings to the config.sys line.
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| 65 |
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| 66 |
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| 67 | 6 Known problems
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| 68 | ================
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| 69 | - Users have reported that sometimes applications can no longer play audio
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| 70 | (unable to load mdm.dll). This apparently happens from time to time (requiring
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| 71 | a reboot), but I have not been able to reproduce this myself.
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| 72 | If you find a way to reliably reproduce this, please contact the author.
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| 73 | (see section 9)
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| 74 | - Small distortions when recording at 44.1khz 16 bits stereo
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| 75 | - Crash in PMMERGE when installing the driver on a system that uses the Scitech
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| 76 | display drivers.
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| 77 | Workaround: move the first minstall window (which asks you to select the sb
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| 78 | driver) almost completely outside of the screen and press enter.
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| 79 |
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| 80 |
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| 81 | 7 File listing
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| 82 | ==============
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| 83 | Installation files:
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| 84 | 23-04-00 16:55 326 0 audfiles.scr
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| 85 | 19-07-94 17:54 4395 0 audplay.ico
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| 86 | 24-04-00 10:37 952 0 AUDHELP.HLP
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| 87 | 24-04-00 17:09 20519 0 CARDINFO.dll
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| 88 | 24-04-00 17:09 3500 0 control.scr
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| 89 | 19-07-94 17:54 4395 0 midiplay.ico
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| 90 | 19-07-94 17:54 4395 0 vidplay.ico
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| 91 |
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| 92 | 16 bits MMPM/2 audio driver:
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| 93 | 24-04-00 17:26 40382 0 sblive16.sys
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| 94 |
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| 95 | 32 bits SB Live Core audio driver:
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| 96 | 25-04-00 21:38 81056 0 sblive32w4.sys
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| 97 |
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| 98 | 32 bits SB Live Core audio driver:
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| 99 | (uses the new KEE api found in Warp 4 + Fixpack 13 or Warp Server for
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| 100 | e-Business)
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| 101 | 25-04-00 21:42 63936 0 sblive32kee.sys
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| 102 |
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| 103 |
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| 104 | 8 Source code
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| 105 | =============
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| 106 | As this driver is based on the open source SoundBlaster Live Linux driver,
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| 107 | the source code is available under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
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| 108 | The CVS repository is located at the Netlabs server:
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| 109 | set CVSROOT=:pserver:guest@www.netlabs.org:d:/netlabs.src/sbliveos2
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| 110 | set USER=guest
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| 111 |
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| 112 | Login as 'guest' with password 'readonly'.
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| 113 |
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| 114 |
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| 115 | 9 Contacting the author
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| 116 | =======================
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| 117 | When you find a bug in the driver, you can contact the author by
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| 118 | email at sandervl@xs4all.nl.
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| 119 | Bug reports should include the following information:
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| 120 | - SoundBlaster Live model
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| 121 | - OS/2 version + fixpack level
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| 122 | - Description of the procedure to reproduce the bug
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| 123 |
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| 124 | Please note that I do *not* want people to mail me about problems that
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| 125 | aren't clearly bugs in the driver. There is a mailinglist at egroups.com
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| 126 | that can be used for general questions about the driver.
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| 127 |
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| 128 | Also, do NOT mail the Linux authors about problems with the OS/2 driver.
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| 129 | If a problem in the driver turns out to be a bug in their code, then I will
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| 130 | contact them.
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| 131 |
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| 133 | 9.1 SoundBlaster Live OS/2 mailinglist
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| 134 | ======================================
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| 135 | A mailinglist to discuss the OS/2 sblive driver has been created at egroups.com.
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| 136 | Go to www.egroups.com to subscribe to sbliveos2@egroups.com.
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| 137 |
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| 138 |
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| 139 | 10 Warranty
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| 140 | ===========
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| 141 | EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE RESTRICTED BY LAW, THIS WORK IS PROVIDED
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| 142 | WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING
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| 143 | BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A
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| 144 | PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY OR TITLE. EXCEPT AS
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| 145 | OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW, NO AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR
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| 146 | LICENSOR SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, EVEN IF
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| 147 | THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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