From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:40:22 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 395 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 14 July 2002 Number 395 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 [os2genau] Further sound card "issues" : Ed Durrant 2 Re: [os2genau] Further sound card "issues" : Ed Durrant **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:12:55 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: [os2genau] Further sound card "issues" Having got a driver for the CT5880 based Creative Labs Sound Blaster Vibra 128 card which I "thought" I had bought on Friday, after many hours of unsuccessful trials I decided to see if the Creative Labs site might shine some light on the problem. Reading the doco, all seemed to be OK, however the model number shown on the Vibra 128 manual was not the model number on my card. Well mine's a "cheepo" OEM variant, so that's probably the reason, or so I thought. I eventually found a place to search on the model number and guess what, the card I had been sold as a Vibra 128 is actually a Creative Labs Sound blaster (Ensoniq) PCI Audio card, not the Vibra ! Both use the CT5880 chip, but they are different cards ! According to the documentation both cards should work in a "legacy" mode and work with Sound Blaster 16 drivers - they don't, at least not under OS/2 (the driver complains that it can't find the card). So I searched around and found two different OS/2 Ensoniq ES1371 driver and tried them both, by using the (undocumented) /V switch I get a message that reports the chipset found correctly but says that the resource manager could not find SB/WSS. Has anyone on the list actually got an Ensoniq version of a Sound Blaster card to work under OS/2 ?? Also has anyone been able to get the latest (Dolby 5.1) Sound Blaster to work under OS/2 ?? Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:28:41 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: [os2genau] Further sound card "issues" Well, having written, the story below, I decided to put the card back into the PC (I'd tried it out in a Win98 box to prove it wasn't faulty). Fastened up the case, turned it on and went for a coffee - guess what ..... when I came back I had audio working !! I can only presume either the card has to be initialised - which running it in the W98 box has done, of it was simply badly seated in the machine in the first place and having been re-installed, it's now OK. Either way, it's working .... phew ! Cheers/2 Ed. Ed Durrant wrote: > > Having got a driver for the CT5880 based Creative Labs Sound Blaster > Vibra 128 card which I "thought" I had bought on Friday, after many > hours of unsuccessful trials I decided to see if the Creative Labs site > might shine some light on the problem. Reading the doco, all seemed to > be OK, however the model number shown on the Vibra 128 manual was not > the model number on my card. Well mine's a "cheepo" OEM variant, so > that's probably the reason, or so I thought. I eventually found a place > to search on the model number and guess what, the card I had been sold > as a Vibra 128 is actually a Creative Labs Sound blaster (Ensoniq) PCI > Audio card, not the Vibra ! Both use the CT5880 chip, but they are > different cards ! According to the documentation both cards should work > in a "legacy" mode and work with Sound Blaster 16 drivers - they don't, > at least not under OS/2 (the driver complains that it can't find the > card). > > So I searched around and found two different OS/2 Ensoniq ES1371 driver > and tried them both, by using the (undocumented) /V switch I get a > message that reports the chipset found correctly but says that the > resource manager could not find SB/WSS. > > Has anyone on the list actually got an Ensoniq version of a Sound > Blaster card to work under OS/2 ?? Also has anyone been able to get the > latest (Dolby 5.1) Sound Blaster to work under OS/2 ?? > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------