A Soundblaster is the industry standard card. If you have a 100% true Soundblaster 16, freedos can use it. I successfully tricked Windows 98SE dos drivers for a PCI soundblaster 16 to work in Freedos. There should be an open source replacement driver for the soundblaster 16 cards, but I don't know how similar these cards really are. I hope an OSS driver is part of freedos 1.1.
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:49 -0500, John Ames wrote: > I've got an ISA SB16 on a 486 box I've installed FreeDOS on. I had > trouble installing the driver software to begin with, as the installer > didn't want to run until I booted into MS-DOS 6.22. Now it's > installed, enough that games can recognize and use the hardware. > However, I'm still running into some trouble with it. CTSB16.SYS and > SBCD.SYS both have DEVICE lines in FDCONFIG.SYS, which I copied over > from the CONFIG.SYS created by the installer, as does CTMMSYS.SYS. > However, while CTMMSYS works without issue, CTSB16 and SBCD both crash > during boot. > > This is a bit of a problem, as without these I can't use the companion > CD-ROM drive (and I don't have an IDE controller capable of driving a > newer CD-ROM on hand.) SBCD gives me "Invalid Opcode" error messages, > like some of the other utilities did until I ran them under MS-DOS. > CTSB16, on the other hand, goes insane and prints screenfuls of > gibberish. I've got them both commented out for now, but that still > leaves me with no CD access. > > Does anybody have any idea what, if anything, can be done to get these > working on FreeDOS? Or should I just settle for finding a separate > CD-ROM drive and controller? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
