From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Gravis Ultra Sound problems.
Date: 4 Jan 1993 19:20:27 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <C0C9xz.3Bs@newsflash.concordia.ca> strider@cs.concordia.ca (Peter Georgakakis) writes:
>
>I recently purchased a Gravis Ultra Sound card but have had no luck getting
>it to work under OS/2 2.0 (GA + SP).  When I run the setup program
>(under DOS emulation) OS/2 traps (0002).  I have been running GA since
>it came out and have never had a trap before, so I figure it is the
>sound card that is causeing this problem.  I also tried running the
>playfile program and it just crashes with an "illegal instruction
>executed".  Now, the question is: can I get this card to work under
>OS/2?


As of now, there is no OS/2 driver for the Ultrasound. There is one in
the works but it's not at the top of their priority list. What you
should do, and what I've told all Ultrasound & OS/2 owners to do is
write them and tell them what OS/2 is for real and here to stay. ANd
that SOund Blaster has a driver (in beta) already and PAS's OS/2 driver
is coming as well. You should have email access so this would be free
for you. Here is their addresses....

Write Alan, the tech guy, at 71333.350@compuserve.com.

AND

write Chris, the salesguy, at yuzik@sfu.ca.

Tell them we want an OS/2 driver for the Ultrasound.
Meanwhile. You should read comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard and join the
Ultrasound mailing list (free for those with email access). There are
those who have it working under a DOS box but you can't have any
hardware conflicts at all under OS/2. It's not as forgiving as DOS. For
example, in DOS, you can use IRQ 7 even though this is really for the
printer. But nobody really uses it so everyone uses it for other
hardware. Not so under OS/2. I'll send you the info on the mailing list
below....
_______________________________________________________________________

	Greetings!

	There's been a lot of talk lately about the Gravis Ultrasound,
as well as the mailing list for it.  I thought I'd put in my two cents
worth on the topic, as I happen to know a little about the mailing
list... I'm the administrator.  :)

	To join, mail to the request server.  It will help you get
signed up.  This is also the address for accessing the mailserver.
Just send mail to:

	ultrasound-request@dsd.es.com

	To post a message onto the digest, mail to:

	ultrasound@dsd.es.com

	If you have trouble with the server, feel free to mail to:

	ultrasound-owner@dsd.es.com

	This will put you in touch with a real human.  If you can't
mail to that, just mail me directly and we'll figure something out.
The server isn't perfect, though, and I'd  really appreciate it if
you'd let me know what goes wrong with it if you try to use it and it
croaks. 

	Thanks for your time!

Note:

The FTP sites are archive.epas.utoronto.ca in directory pub/pc/ultrasound
and wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory systems/msdos/ultrasound.

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