For the Dell sound, its a chip soldered on the main board. I think it works like these stupid win printers; it waits for windows to start it up. After all dos is dead isn't it - ha. I will have to search for this dossound. It might be the answer.
cheers DS On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:49:13 +0200 Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> writes: > > Hi Dale and Don, > > > I have a Compaq Armada (Laptop) with a ESS1869 - I tried every > > SB/ESS driver I could find then by chance I loaded DOSSOUND and it > > worked. For my modern desktops with the oldest PCI cards (mostly > ESS > > or Yamaha) I can only get sound through the internal speaker, but > > MPXPLAY & QView work through the lineout - I think any successful > > configuration will be a compromise. > > What exactly is DOSSOUND and what does it do? And for Dale: > > It is important to know what card and chip exactly causes the > trouble. > ESS made many of them. I agree that you might find the solution in > some > "turn chip on" tool, but that, too, will depend on which chip and > card > exactly you have. If your card is ISA with plug and play support, > you > may need the general (Intel?) plug and play drivers for DOS to > activate > and configure the plug and play things it at boot :-) Back in ISA > days, > PnP simply meant "auto-select non-colliding I/O port bases, IRQ > etc.". > > Cheers, 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/TGL3165/556f154de186c154d0a57mp03duc > ******************************************************>>>> >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
