| 1 | SoundBlaster Live! OS/2 Audio driver version 0.75 (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 History
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| 9 | 4 Requirements
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| 10 | 5 Installation/uninstall
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| 11 | 6 Config.sys options
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| 12 | 7 Known problems
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| 13 | 8 File listing
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| 14 | 9 Source code
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| 15 | 10 Contacting the author
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| 16 | 10.1 SoundBlaster Live OS/2 mailinglist
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| 17 | 11 Warranty
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| 18 |
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| 19 |
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| 20 | 1 Description
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| 21 | =============
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| 22 | This is the port of the open source Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live Linux audio
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| 23 | driver.
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| 24 | Although the driver is almost feature complete, it should still be considered
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| 25 | beta software. (see the warranty section)
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| 26 |
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| 27 | This work would never have been possible without the support by Creative Labs
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| 28 | and the current maintainers of the Linux driver.
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| 29 |
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| 30 |
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| 31 | 2 Features
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| 32 | ==========
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| 33 | - Up to 32 simultaneous wave playback streams
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| 34 | - One record stream
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| 35 | - Full duplex
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| 36 | - Support for the IOCTL90 mixer interface (designed by Joe Nord of
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| 37 | Crystal Semiconductor and supported by the Crystal OS/2 audio drivers)
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| 38 | - RTMIDI playback & recording
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| 39 | --> Note: this is not the same as midi playback via MMPM/2 (midi applet)
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| 40 | Playing midi files requires an external MIDI device
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| 41 |
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| 42 |
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| 43 | 3 History
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| 44 | =========
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| 45 | 0.75
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| 46 | - Put back joystick code
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| 47 | - Fix for playing small wave files
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| 48 |
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| 49 | 0.70
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| 50 | - Fail to load if resource manager returned error while allocating resources.
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| 51 | (prevents SB Live driver from allocating irq when the (e.g.) the USB driver
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| 52 | has already claimed exclusive access)
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| 53 | - Added new DirectAudio interface used by Odin for wave playback
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| 54 |
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| 55 | 0.60
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| 56 | - Fixed detection of SB Live on some systems
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| 57 | - Fixed video mixer control
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| 58 | - Changed wave volume level
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| 59 | - Fixed clicks when playing wave files with large audio buffers
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| 60 | - Print joystick port during init + register joystick device + it's resources
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| 61 |
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| 62 | 0.50
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| 63 | - Added RTMIDI playback & recording (MPU401)
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| 64 | - Manually detect SB Live! hardware
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| 65 | - Bugfix for TRAP D when starting playback/recording
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| 66 |
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| 67 | 0.25
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| 68 | - First public beta release
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| 69 |
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| 70 |
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| 71 | 4 Requirements
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| 72 | ==============
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| 73 | - OS/2 Warp 4 or Warp Server for e-Business
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| 74 | (Warp 3 not tested)
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| 75 | - Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! or
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| 76 | Creative Labs SoundBlaster PCI 512 soundcard
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| 77 |
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| 78 |
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| 79 | 5 Installation/uninstall
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| 80 | ========================
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| 81 | To install the SB Live driver:
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| 82 | - Make sure your BIOS configures the SB Live! card (assigns IRQ and IO addresses)
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| 83 | Look for a 'PnP OS' (or similar) setting in your BIOS options and set it to
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| 84 | 'No' or 'Off'.
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| 85 | The SB Live! driver does not work if the BIOS doesn't assign hardware
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| 86 | resources to the card.
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| 87 | - Unzip driver archive
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| 88 | - Run install.cmd
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| 89 | - Select 'SoundBlaster Live! Wave Audio' and continue installation
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| 90 | - Reboot
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| 91 |
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| 92 | To remove the SB Live driver you should proceed with the installation
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| 93 | as described above, but select zero SB Live cards when asked.
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| 94 |
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| 95 | To use the SB Live's joystick port you need to install one of the
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| 96 | OS/2 joystick drivers and tell it to you the IO port that the
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| 97 | sb live driver prints during boot.
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| 98 | I.e.: Sblive16 prints this during boot:
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| 99 | SB Live! joystick at : 0xE400
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| 100 | Change the joystick port address to E400 for the gamedd2 driver:
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| 101 | DEVICE=C:\GAMEDD.SYS /P:E400 /W:400 /C:1E
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| 102 |
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| 103 | Note that this is not an ideal solution as the SB Live's joystick
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| 104 | port address can be changed by the BIOS when hardware is added or
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| 105 | removed.
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| 106 | However, it's safer than mapping it to the standard joystick port address
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| 107 | (i.e. 0x201) due to the risk of a conflict with other (audio) hardware.
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| 108 |
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| 109 |
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| 110 | 6 Config.sys options
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| 111 | ====================
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| 112 | DEVICE=J:\MMOS2\SBLIVE16.SYS /V /C /M /L
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| 113 | - /V: verbose (prints copyrights during driver init)
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| 114 | - /C: enable CD audio input (default muted; can be changed with mixer app)
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| 115 | - /M: enable microphone audio input (default muted; can be changed with mixer app)
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| 116 | - /L: enable linein audio input (default muted; can be changed with mixer app)
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| 117 |
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| 118 | DEVICE=J:\MMOS2\SBLIVE32.SYS /D
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| 119 | - /D: print start and end address of code
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| 120 | (useful to locate the code that causes a trap (CS:EIP in trapscreen))
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| 121 |
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| 122 | The installation adds the verbose and CD settings to the config.sys line.
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| 123 |
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| 124 |
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| 125 | 7 Known problems
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| 126 | ================
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| 127 | - Users have reported that sometimes applications can no longer play audio
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| 128 | (unable to load mdm.dll). This apparently happens from time to time (requiring
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| 129 | a reboot), but I have not been able to reproduce this myself.
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| 130 | If you find a way to reliably reproduce this, please contact the author.
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| 131 | (see section 9)
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| 132 | - Crash in PMMERGE when installing the driver on a system that uses the Scitech
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| 133 | display drivers.
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| 134 | Workaround: move the first minstall window (which asks you to select the sb
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| 135 | driver) almost completely outside of the screen and press enter.
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| 136 | - No sound when there are still inactive audio drivers in MMOS2\mmpm2.ini.
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| 137 | To correct the problem uninstall the SB Live and your old audio driver.
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| 138 | You can also manually remove references to the old driver:
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| 139 | - uninstall the SB Live driver
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| 140 | - edit MMOS2\mmpm2.ini
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| 141 | - search for 'Waveaudio=' section and remove any names that
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| 142 | are listed on that line
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| 143 | - search for 'Ampmix=' section and remove any names that
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| 144 | are listed on that line
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| 145 | (result: Waveaudio=
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| 146 | Ampmix=
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| 147 | )
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| 148 | - reinstall the SB Live driver
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| 149 | MMOS2\mmpm2.ini should now contain:
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| 150 | Waveaudio=SBLIVEWAVE01
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| 151 | Ampmix=SBLIVEAMPMIX01
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| 152 | - reboot
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| 153 |
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| 154 | - IRQ conflicts can occurs with drivers that are unable to share their interrupt.
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| 155 | (the USB drivers have this problem, but only on some systems)
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| 156 | The SBLive driver can detect some of these conflicts and will print the
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| 157 | following messages:
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| 158 | Another device driver was granted exclusive access to IRQ xx
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| 159 | Unable to allocate hardware resources! Aborting...
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| 160 |
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| 161 | When you see this message, you must force the BIOS to allocate another
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| 162 | interrupt for the sblive driver.
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| 163 |
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| 164 |
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| 165 | 8 File listing
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| 166 | ==============
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| 167 | Installation files:
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| 168 | audfiles.scr
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| 169 | audplay.ico
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| 170 | AUDHELP.HLP
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| 171 | CARDINFO.dll
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| 172 | control.scr
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| 173 | midiplay.ico
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| 174 | vidplay.ico
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| 175 |
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| 176 | 16 bits MMPM/2 audio driver:
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| 177 | sblive16.sys
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| 178 |
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| 179 | 32 bits SB Live Core audio driver:
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| 180 | sblive32w4.sys
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| 181 |
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| 182 | 32 bits SB Live Core audio driver:
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| 183 | (uses the new KEE api found in Warp 4 + Fixpack 13 or Warp Server for
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| 184 | e-Business)
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| 185 | sblive32kee.sys
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| 186 |
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| 187 |
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| 188 | 9 Source code
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| 189 | =============
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| 190 | As this driver is based on the open source SoundBlaster Live Linux driver,
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| 191 | the source code is available under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
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| 192 | The CVS repository is located at the Netlabs server:
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| 193 | set CVSROOT=:pserver:guest@www.netlabs.org:d:/netlabs.src/sbliveos2
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| 194 | set USER=guest
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| 195 |
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| 196 | Login as 'guest' with password 'readonly'.
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| 197 |
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| 198 |
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| 199 | 10 Contacting the author
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| 200 | =======================
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| 201 | When you find a bug in the driver, you can contact the author by
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| 202 | email at sandervl@xs4all.nl.
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| 203 | Bug reports should include the following information:
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| 204 | - SoundBlaster Live model
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| 205 | - OS/2 version + fixpack level
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| 206 | - Description of the procedure to reproduce the bug
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| 207 | - Trap description (register contents) (if you're reporting a crash)
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| 208 | Add the /D option to the sblive32.sys config.sys line and write down
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| 209 | the start & end address printed during the driver initialization.
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| 210 |
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| 211 | Please note that I do *not* want people to mail me about problems that
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| 212 | aren't clearly bugs in the driver. There is a mailinglist at egroups.com
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| 213 | that can be used for general questions about the driver.
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| 214 |
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| 215 | Also, do NOT mail the Linux authors about problems with the OS/2 driver.
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| 216 | If a problem in the driver turns out to be a bug in their code, then I will
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| 217 | contact them.
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| 218 |
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| 219 |
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| 220 | 10.1 SoundBlaster Live OS/2 mailinglist
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| 221 | ======================================
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| 222 | A mailinglist to discuss the OS/2 sblive driver has been created at yahoogroups.com.
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| 223 | Go to www.yahoogroups.com to subscribe to sbliveos2@yahoogroups.com.
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| 224 |
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| 225 |
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| 226 | 11 Warranty
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| 227 | ===========
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| 228 | EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE RESTRICTED BY LAW, THIS WORK IS PROVIDED
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| 229 | WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING
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| 230 | BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A
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| 231 | PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY OR TITLE. EXCEPT AS
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| 232 | OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW, NO AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR
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| 233 | LICENSOR SHALL BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, EVEN IF
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| 234 | THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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