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DOSCab + pure DOS + SB Live
2012:
Thanks for helping chris, it is really appreciated!
Though I'm sad to inform you that tinkering in the allegro setup program got me nowhere. Except perhaps to verify that Allegro's autodetect detects my card as a SB16 - which seems to be right so far. Nothing I tried (different drivers, different irq/memory/etc settings) could get any sound out of it... :/
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IE533 with Realtek 650 onboard AC97 sound. I've always had this disabled in the BIOS, to avoid conflicts with my SB Live card.
I'm trying to locate a SB16 PCI card, but it would be nice for all the SB Live DOS users out there if we found some way to solve this, since it's so much easier to find PCI SB Live cards than PCI SB16 cards.
I have a SB16 ISA card, but that doesn't help a lot without any ISA slots, obviously... :/
garyh:
Not that this helps, but I spent ages trying to get a SB PCI card working with DOSCab, in the end I admitted defeat and bought an ISA version that worked immediately. Not a viable solution if you don't have an ISA slot though.
Chris:
Unfortunately, the official word in the FAQ of the Allegro library is:
--- Quote ---Does DOS Allegro work with the SB-Live soundcard?
It does for some people, but not for others. The problem is that Creative Labs refuse to release any specs, so we don't know how to write a driver for it. Complain to them, or buy a different card from a more reasonable manufacturer.
--- End quote ---
Doesn't sound promising... :(
2012:
True, not very promising. :(
But Advance*/SEAL seems to get it working so there must be some way as I see it.
And there are linux drivers for it, AFAIK, so pretty much must be known about how it works.
2012:
Some more info links I googled up, just for information to anyone curious about this issue:
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/ "Creative released some of the information needed to build open source drivers on November 1st under the GPL."
http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html Creative's information about open source linux sb (live) driver projects
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 Emu10K1 sourceforge page with CVS and more
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Live+Value.&chip=emu10k1&module=emu10k1 Some more info about the Emu10K1 driver from the ALSA project
I guess it could've been that Allegro developers were so p***ed off at Creative's handling of this for such a long time that when they (Creative) finally started releasing information noone bothered to work on it anymore...
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