Subject: Re: Which driver?
Newsgroups: gmane.org.netlabs.uniaud.general
Date: 2007-07-13 17:09:09 GMT (1 year, 51 weeks, 19 hours and 40 minutes ago)
Brendan Oakley wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On 7/5/07, warp4dennis <tdennis <at> t-online.de> wrote: >> Hi: >> I'm getting to the place where I could use some sound with eCS. >> The MB that I'm using at the moment is an ASUS A8N-SLI Delux and a >> SoundBlaster Audigy SE audio card. >> It has been awhile since I tried to get this pare working with eCS 1.2r. >> What UniAud drivers should I use with this combination? >> The ones on the eCS CD or are their newer ones? >> If newer ones exist, where do I find them? > > The latest "official" release of Uniaud is 1.1.4rc2, dated November > 2006. Found here: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud114RC2.zip > > The version on eCS 1.2R is older than that. There are also various > recent test builds floating around. We're getting close to releasing > 1.1.4rc3 pretty soon. There remains a bit of reconciling to do on > Uniaud16 first. Preliminary testing shows some improvement with some > hardware configurations, so stay tuned. > > All I know about support for the Audigy SE is from reading > http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/ticket/28 which says it doesn't work > with 1.1.4rc1. I don't know about 1.1.4rc2. As far as I can tell, > nothing was done to improve support for it, but I'm not sure. If you > try it, please report back. > > Thanks > Brendan Brendan: Here's some UniAud feedback. It ain't good. System is a ASUS 8N-SLI delux MB and a SB Audigy SE audio card. The MB BIOS has been updated. O/S is eCS 1.2mr. The UniAud drivers are 114rc2. UniAud recognizes the card by giving its SB number and assigning an Interrupt. UniMix.exe has been copied to \MMOS2 folder and UniAud.dll is in the \MMOS2\DLL folder. UniMix is pointed to by the SET PATH= statement in the Config.sys file and the UniAud file is pointed to by the LIBPATH= statement also in the Config.sys file. Here is what I get when I try to turn up the volume on Device. My input: UniMix -id1 -cnt1 -vol150. The s/w answers: Set ID: 1, Count Value 1, Value: 150 Brendan I think some more work should be done on the unimix.exe because what is displayed in -list is confusing. Take a look above, the second argument in UniMix is -cnt1 but the answer that UniMix puts on the screen is Count Value 1 (I think), then, to be even more confusing what comes back from -list is Count of Values: 1. Then in -list you have Value: for a heading and then you have value1: which may be referring to Control 1 and again value 2: which may be referring to Control 2. But I have no way of proving it. I realize that you are doing the best you can. However if it were a little bit more user friendly (understandable) perhaps we might have a chance at convincing some Win users to give eCS a try. Another problem is: nomatter which -cnt (1 or 2) argument I give with the -val150, according to -list only "value 2" is updated to 150. Value 1: stays at 0. There is no output! Not even in one channel. I have not set any switches for UniAud16.sys or UniAud32.sys because nothing in the .txt file explains their use. It would be nice if the purpose for the two switches were explained in more detail so the user will know what you mean. Another thing that needs explaining is UniMixPM. What's it good for? All I get when I click on the prog. is a little bar across the screen with the name of the program. I tried to expand the bar but nothing happens. The only good that I found was the ability to make this bar disappear without having to re-boot. Please keep in mind that you are not only giving this information to English speaking people but to people of other nationalities whose use and understanding of the English language is not the same. A good example of this is GB. There everybody drives on the Left, so if you want to get off the "Freeway" you go left, not right. So it's a good idea to explain things in more detail for those who live in other countries so they can come up with the correct answer. Another example is with Germans translating from their language to English. When I'm going someplace I sometimes say "My goal is going to Hamburg" but Germans will sometime say "My target is going to Hamburg" and for that reason translators will always be needed. Thomas