Re: sound support (Re: XMS problem with Aladdin demo)

[Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:48:08PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:02:37PM +0100, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> > 
> > When I set up the OPL3 chip in Linux, I specified it should use port 
> > 0x388 and not another port. I'm able to change this port to something 
> > else through the module settings. Would it be a good idea to change this 
> > value?
> 
> Most programs that want an Adlib or OPL3 chip expect the port to be
> 0x388.  Only programs which used the dual-OPL2 of SBPro usually use
> 0x220, and these are very rare.  Only program I know of that uses 0x228
> is sb-sound.com.  So 0x388 is the best setting for now.  I can't explain
> your other problems until I test this myself.

I checked this myself.  Something strange is definitely happening.  If I
enable tracing, I can see the adlib traffic, but no sound is coming out.
I also tried without tracing and with 'fast' and nothing happens there
either.  The volume is OK because I've written a program on Linux side
that sets up a random adlib instrument to play, and I can hear the
sound there.

I wonder when this was broken, I know it worked perfectly only a few
months ago...

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>