Re: [Freedos-user] mpxplay + via onboard soundcard

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shepelev
Hello, Eric "you may have to set the BIOS option to AC97 on/off or SB16 legacy support on/off or both, and you may have to use the VIAAUDIO.COM tool (see my other mail) to un-mute the VIA." Yes, I enabled onboard audio (otherwise there's be no sound at all...) and also "Legacy

Re: [Freedos-user] mpxplay + via onboard soundcard

2008-06-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Anton, you may have to set the BIOS option to AC97 on/off or SB16 legacy support on/off or both, and you may have to use the VIAAUDIO.COM tool (see my other mail) to un-mute the VIA. I wonder whether mpxplay could do the work of viaaudio by itself without using the viaaudio file. Maybe you ca

[Freedos-user] mpxplay + via onboard soundcard

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shepelev
Hello, I tried playing some music with mpxplay and couldn't. I enabled AC97 in BIOS and launched mpxplay with -scs VIA option, and it did procuce sound, but it was faltering and CPU Load (reported by mpxplay) swung between 12% and 279% outrageneously. My c

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SEusing metakern

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shepelev
All right. To your judgement is presented a patch for the metakern manual that I think will make things clearer for unexperienced users. Hope it sounds OK: The best way to install FreeDOS on a common partition with another OS would be to make a dump of its bootsect