From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:36 AET-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1807 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Saturday 11 April 2009 Number 1807 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Installing Uniaud : Peter Moylan 2 Re: Installing Uniaud : Paul Smedley 3 Adaptec SCSI Card to swap : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:46:41 +1000 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Installing Uniaud What's the recommended way to install Uniaud? (I had version 1.9.6, which - unlike earlier Uniaud versions - recognised my Intel ICH5 on-board audio. That seemed like a step forward, but still I had no sound. Now I want to install 1.9.12, but I've forgotten the procedure. There used to be a README about this, but I can't find it any more.) I've gotten as far as running MINSTALL.EXE to "Reset your Multimedia installation", because I recalled from the past that the way to upgrade an audio driver was to run the installer and specify that you wanted to install 0 units of the device (who dreams up this stuff?), but it appears that MINSTALL.EXE has been replaced in eCS by a new version that's just as hard to understand as the IBM version. Searching for uniaud in CONFIG.SYS reveals only a line saying REM UNIAUD16.SYS IS EXCLUDED FOR NOW BECAUSE IT FAILS ON BOOT which I remember putting there myself long ago. (As I recall it, I didn't need to exclude UNIAUD32.SYS, which didn't work but which at least didn't stop the OS from booting.) Presumably I put a REM in front of either a BASEDEV= or DEVICE= ....... Aha! I just remembered that OS/2 continued the fine old MS-DOS tradition of keeping hundreds of old copies of CONFIG.SYS. I've now copied the MMOS2 lines from an earlier version, then deleted the lines that caused a failure on bootup (SSMDD.SYS, R0STUB.SYS, MIDI.SYS, and VCSHDD.SYS), and now I'm back, I think, to where I was. Still no sound, but again my hardware is recognised by Uniaud on boot, so at least I'm getting no sound with version 1.9.12 rather than no sound with version 1.9.6, so I guess that that's progress. That gets rid of my original question, I guess, but I'll mail this anyway because it underlines the point that there really needs to be some sort of on-line "how to" dealing with the difficult issue of OS/2 sound. Many years ago the Warp Pharmacy handled this quite well. Its successor, the Warp Doctor, doesn't seem to have taken off very well. (This stuff was so much easier back in the days when it was called "sound card drivers" rather than "multimedia". What does the "multi" in "multimedia" mean anyway? Video, audio, and []? Did anyone ever get around to implementing a third medium?) -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:59:16 +0845 From: Paul Smedley Subject: Re: Installing Uniaud Hi Peter, Peter Moylan wrote: > What's the recommended way to install Uniaud? (I had version 1.9.6, > which - unlike earlier Uniaud versions - recognised my Intel ICH5 > on-board audio. That seemed like a step forward, but still I had no > sound. Now I want to install 1.9.12, but I've forgotten the procedure. > There used to be a README about this, but I can't find it any more.) There isn't (currently) an installer for 1.9.12. The easiest course of action is to download ftp://ftp dot netlabs dot org/pub/uniaud/uniaud114RC7.ZIP and install it using minstall - then to replace the copies of uniaud16.sys and uniaud32.sys in x:\mmos2 with the ones in the 1.9.12 zip Someday I'll find the time to create an installer version of Uniaud 1.9.x - or with any luck, someone will step forward to create it for me. Cheers, Paul. -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:33:10 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Adaptec SCSI Card to swap Hi all. I have a possible deal for you (but no steak knives this year - apparently there is a global financial crisis somewhere). My machine has a HP3C SCSI scanner which works well connected to my Symbios 8XX controller card. However, the card causes me a regular bit of irritation on boot - if I don't "fiddle" with the SCSI configuration utility for the card, the boot is flaky, and often fails. It could be a timing issue, but I don't have the patience to kill the bug. A long time ago I acquired a bargain Adaptec 29160LP SCSI card, but have been unable to find a way of connecting the scanner to the external connector of the card. Succeeded this past week, and tried to install the card today. Driver for the card is not an issue - using the eCS supplied AIC78U2.ADD. But no go at the hardware level - it's a combo 64/32bit PCI long card, requiring a Bus Mastering slot on the mobo, and I don't have any 64-bit long slots. So short slots with proper clearance only, and 32-bit operation. Oh, well.. However when I mounted the card, regardless of which slot I used, the boot process would either fail POST or totally miss the card, so no Ctrl-A to configure it. Along with that, I lost access to my NIC, so no network either. a good looking card, but not a go-er here. Therefore, I am willing to offer a swap - one 29160LP card with all accompaniments (CD, instruction leaflets etc) in its box, in exchange for a 2940U2W which I *know* is a 32-bit card that can fit on my mobo, and which uses the same driver (as I am greedy for doubling the throughput from 40Mbit to 80Mbit if possible). Swap will be easiest in Melbourne via the OS/2 SIG meeting, but can be arranged by post. Altenatively, anyone who knows how to a) fix my Symbios problem or b) make the 29160LP work is welcome to offer advice and assistance. TIA and best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG