From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: PAS-16 OS/2 drivers installed. was:  PAS16 on ftp-os2
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:09:33 GMT


The mixer works, but whenever I try the MMPM digital sound player, I get an
error message that it can't open the Digital Sound device.

Any ideas?
How did you get it working?

Also, did anyone with a PAS16 get the Soundblaster MMPM driver to work with the
PAS SB section?

Thank you!
Meir

In article <1jlbe5INNpbn@tamsun.tamu.edu> pzs3761@tamsun.tamu.edu (Peter Ziemowit Sierant) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.005705.15327@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>>I just downloaded mvos2.zip from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
>>These should be the MMPM2 beta drivers for the PAS16 card that we have all been
>>waiting for.  I don't know anything else about them.
>>
>>Good luck and enjoy!
>>Post when you get them working with the 2.1 beta and MMPM2 :-)
>>
>>Meir
>>
>    I downloaded the file last night (this morning more accurately :-)
>and after a few minutes and a reboot had things running. The driver for
>the PAS-16's built-in SCSI was what I needed more than anything, and 
>it seems to work fine, for the first time I can use my CDR-84 under OS/2
>without resorting to a VMB. 
>    The audio driver finally allows me to use MMPM/2. So far I can play
>.wav files with the included applet, but I can't seem to get .mid files
>to work.
>
>Bugs/limitations so far:
>
>playing a sound file causes a tiny bit of "snow" to show up on the monitor.
>a refresh gets rid of it. (ET4000 800x256)
>
>.mid files are silent.
>
>volume seems inconsistent, the same file played a few times in a row may
>come out at different volumes.
>
>Pro Mix/2 applet isn't finished.
>
>I had to rem out the DOS driver (mvsound.sys) from my config.sys, as opening
>a dos window loads the driver and caused unpredictable results. (usually no
>sound or repeating sound with mmpm/2)
>
>Before having this driver, sound in a dos window would usually either work, or
>have an interrupt conflict(repeat 1st bit over and over). Now sound will play
>only once through, but extremely fast and high-pitched.
>
>The SCSI driver has a max throughput of around 280kb/sec for CD-ROM drives.
>(It's a bit higher for hard drives). This is fast enough for most CD-ROM
>drives, but a bit slower than the speed-doubled ones. For reference, the DOS
>drivers provide about 690kb/sec.
>
>I admit to being very unfamiliar with MMPM/2. The way I loaded the audio driver
>was to install MMPM/2 with its SoundBlaster support, and then edited config.sys
>replacing the SB driver with the PAS driver. For the SCSI driver I installed
>NEC CDROM and Adaptec SCSI support using Selective install, then changed
>the .add line in config.sys to use the PAS .add file. If there is a better
>way of doing it then please let me know, this was what worked at 3 am and I
>wasn't about to wait till morning :-)
>
>All in all, the drivers and the Pro Mixer applet in the mvos2.zip file have
>a definite beta feel, but they do work. Let's hope MediaVision stays commited
>to OS/2 drivers.
>
>--Pete


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