I've quit working on it for a while. Tried every address and interupt I can think of. None work I think the chip is in off mode and needs to be turned on by windows. These sound drivers work on sound blaster cards but not on a laptop with ESS.
cheers DS On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:18:52 +0200 Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> writes: > > Hi! > > > What I need for my Dell is a sound blaster pro driver that works > on > > an ESS chip without windows being there. Windows turns the chip on > > > somehow. The programs are for DOS running under windows. None of > the > > drivers are for dos alone, even if they claim to be. Add windows > to > > the background and they work but who wants that. > > There are many different ESS chips, so more information is needed: > > http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=107869 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_AudioPCI > > http://www.daqarta.com/ess.htm > > What would also help is a tool to detect I/O base, IRQ and DMA > details > without hanging. No matter which card you have, often one or several > of those aspects go wrong. In particular with PCI cards trying to be > compatible to ISA SoundBlaster standards of any type, failing DMA > and > mis-routed IRQ signals are a common source of havoc. In some cases, > it > even is a hardware problem (a new mainboard cannot make PCI stuff > look > sufficiently ISA compatible any more). With SB Live, SB PCI and the > ESS > Ensoniq Audio PCI, the SoundBlaster compatibility even is a > completely > fake driver generated virtual hardware experience in the first > place. > > Regards, Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________ > Protect what matters > Floods can happen anywhere. Learn your risk and find an agent today. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/556f0deaaf252dea23d8mp07duc > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
