I have the same card in a P60 motherboard that absolutely does not support
PNP (sidenote: it's a neat mboard, was the _original_ Acer P60 shipped
before the FDIV bugfix). Anyway, I've gotten this card to work for BOTH
95 and Linux.
First, under '95: the CD that shipped with my card had a directory for
DOS tools, including a file called setupsa.exe. You can manually change
the card's DMAs, IRQs, etc. with this utility. After you've jacked around
with it and finally gotten it to save the configuration files, add the
line drive:\path\to\setupsa.exe /s . On every bootup, it will initialize
the card and then Windoze will be able to correctly recognize and use the
card.
Next, Linux: I had to recompile the kernel. ("Everyone join in!
GROAN!") Use the older sound driver for SoundBlaster boards, with a few
changes: 1) SBPro setup (use the IRQ/DMA from the SoundBlaster section of
setupsa) 2) Yamaha OPL-3 support. On bootup it should detect the
soundblaster AND the opl-3 and with luck workbone will be happy.
Also, for DOS: Adlib for the music, SoundBlaster for the rest, works for
WarCraft and ID games.
The trick for me was to use setupsa, obviously. You may need to set the
slot as non-PNP in your BIOS setup, if possible. Hope this helps.
: >Folks,
: >
: > I"ve got a Yamaha OPL3-SAx PNP sound card that I *cannot* get
: >configured to work properly. I'm using a slightly updated version of
: >RedHat 4.1, isapnptools-1.11, ......
: I got my roommate's working in Winbloze 95 after three days of wrestling with
: it. The manual said the card should be autodetected by windoze, and the install
: new hardware window would pop up, but that never happened. Windoze decided it
: was a Windoze Sound System Board and a Soundblaster, and an OSS. After removing
: those three, then Uninstalling the SAX drivers with its uninstall tool, windoze
: finally found the thing at boot. Of course, it finds it EVERY boot now. Works
: fine in winbloze, not sure in linux tho.
: Just my (somewhat off topic) $.02
: Tmack
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