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I have a couple of problems I need help with:

1) I have an Orchid Soundwave 32 sound card.  To that I have attached a Sony
CDU-33a.  My problems with this are the following:

    a)  I have to boot DOS first to get the sound card to work (and load the
midgen.ld or mt32.ld).  
    b)  I also have to boot under DOS first to get the address configured for
the CDU-33a from the soundcard.

Has anyone written a patch for the CD-ROM problem and does anyone have a
loader for the Soundwave 32?

2)  X-Windows configuration:

    a) No matter what I do, I can't get the video configured right.  I have a
Diamond Stealth 32 ET4000/W32p card and an NEC 3FGe Monitor.
        I am aware that X-Windows doesn't support most Diamond products, but I
don't see why it still won't work using the W32 driver.  I have even tried the
SVGA server, but with the same results.  The biggest headache I have is
setting the dot clocks.  I get a message about not being able to set mode
because there are no defined clocks for it.  I have tried the XFree Config
included and its a no go.  I looked through every doc I have and come up bust.
 Can somebody please save my sanity!  I am trying to get i
t to work in 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, in 8bit, 16, and 32, if possible.  
Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

I am running Linux 1.1.59 currently (Slackware) but I also have version 1.2.3
floating around somewhere.
My machine is a 486DX2/66(Intel) 8meg, Diamond Stealth 32 ET4000w32p (2Meg
board, DRAM) Sony CDU33a attached to the Soundwave 32, Conner tape backup
(250M), and it is slighty modified to run at 80 Meg.  2 Western Digital Hard
drives (540 and 210 Meg), Linux on the second (210).

Pleze help!!!!!!

webpage http//:www.primenet.com/~nme/index.html

 > I have a couple of problems I need help with:
 >
[soundcard porblem]
 >
 >
 > 2)  X-Windows configuration:
 >
 >     a) No matter what I do, I can't get the video configured right.  I have a
 > Diamond Stealth 32 ET4000/W32p card and an NEC 3FGe Monitor.
 >   I am aware that X-Windows doesn't support most Diamond products, but I
 > don't see why it still won't work using the W32 driver.  I have even tried the
 > SVGA server, but with the same results.  The biggest headache I have is
 > setting the dot clocks.  I get a message about not being able to set mode
 > because there are no defined clocks for it.  I have tried the XFree Config
 > included and its a no go.  I looked through every doc I have and come up bust.

Get the dclkprog package from my WWW page sig'd below or sunsite in
pub/Linux/X11/X-servers. The W32 server can only do 8bpp so you're stuck
with 256 colours.

 >  Can somebody please save my sanity!  I am trying to get i
 > t to work in 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, in 8bit, 16, and 32, if possible.  
 > Any clues would be greatly appreciated.
 >
 >

hth,
 Peter

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