Hi! >> Does anyone here know about connecting two PCI sound cards in FreeDOS?
I have two sound chips: One on my mainboard (something nForce HDA) and one PCI ForteMedia FM801 (thanks Martin!). The former has good quality in Linux but is ignored in DOS, the latter sounds worse in Linux but works partially in DOS :-) The FM801 card comes with some Adlib / OPL3 style FM chip for the typical game music and tries to be SB Pro or SB 16 compatible for the digitized sounds but the chip is also AC97. On newer mainboards, the SB compatibility works worse but at least the OPL3 keeps working :-) So far the pros... The cons are that I have to connect the output of one card to the input of the next or use a switch to select from which card I want to go to the amplifier. Another thing is that I have way too many volume control / mixer channels now :-D In any case, you do not have to disable one card to use the other, simply install drivers for the card(s) that you like. In Linux, as both cards are recognized, simply select which one you prefer as the default output. > At the risk of a horrible idea, why not just use DOSBox under Linux? I would rather suggest dosemu, which is faster and runs real FreeDOS. > Heck, even KolibriOS has DOSBox 0.73, and that's only a 3 MB [sic] > download. (Works with AC97 too, apparently.) Sounds fun :-) Make a 2.88 MB boot floppy image for boot ISOs of it. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
