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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:19:53 -0800
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Soiund Card Install Help

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Rocky,

I'm certainly no expert, but I have heard that editing MMPM2.INI can cause
problems, and that the best way to remove an existing device is to use minstall
to delete it. That way the files are SUPPOSED to be left in a usable state. Do
you have a backup from before you started making changes? If not, *AND* if you
have disk space, you might be able to do a minimal install selecting "no audio",
then copy the mmpm2.ini from that install to your current one. Ugly, but it
should get you back to a point where you cluld move forward again.

My sound card (SBLive!) is inop also, but it hasn't made it to the top of my
to-do list yet. :-(

Are you trying to install the Opti-based card?

HTH

Michael Rakijas wrote:
> Well, I've made progress installing eCS since last email. I have eCS 1.2
> installed and working but during the install, it didn't detect the sound card
> (since it was not in the base install list). The machine had a
> previously-working-in-OS/2 sound card based on OPTI 931 chipset. I tried using
> UNIAUD since I didn't have the drivers handy and figured that if it didn't
> work, I'd go back and correct the problem. Sure enough, it didn't work but I
> can't get the proper drivers installed. According to the README.TXT, I had to
> delete three lines out of MMPM2.INI in MMOS2 (the ones associated with the
> originally specified sound card) which I did. I then performed the following
> steps:
>
> 1) Went to Install/Remove
> 2) Selected Multimedia Application Install
> 3) Add a Multimedia Feature
> 4) Install a Feature from Another Location (directing the installer to the
> location of the driver files)
> 4a) The installer properly shows the addition of "OPTI Audio" and presents a
> "Start Installer" push button
> 4b) I press the push button and the machine appears to copy the files from the
> driver location
> 5) Another dialog comes up that looks like the original sound card install
> selection dialog but instead of a list of all the possible and available sound
> cards, it has only one radio button available labelled "No device" and it is
> selected. At this point, there is nothing else that can be selected or done
> (besides aborting) so I have to proceed. So, after electing to go forward, a
> "Rebooting in 20 seconds" message comes up, but way too quickly it seems. I
> guess I expected it to go and modify CONFIG.SYS and MMPM2.INI and any other
> files it needs but I doesn't. Or at least I don't think it does because the
> new device is not installed.
>
> So, questions are
>
> 1) Is there anything that I can do to fix the problem?
> 2) If I try to brute force it by installing it manually (editing configuration
> files myself), are there any other files that need to be modified other than
> CONFIG.SYS and MMPM2.INI to make this successful?
> 3) Do I have to swap out sound cards to get something that will work? I was
> hoping not to have to since this is a known working (in OS/2) sound card so one
> would think that it should work in eCS. Or at least, wouldn't you think?
>
> Of course, any offer of assistance is welcomed and thanks in advance for
> reading.
>
> -Rocky

--
Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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