First post, by DerfJagged
Hello! I have a Yamaha YMF724F-V (PCI) sound card and an Asus A8R-MVP (M1575 Southbridge) motherboard and am trying to get digital sound working in MS-DOS, booting directly into it.
I installed the DS-XG driver, setupds /s is in autoexec.bat.
In setupds, this is what I see (- is greyed out):
LEGACY AUDIO: ENABLE
SB PORT ADDRESS: 220
-IRQ CHANNEL: INTA#
-DMA CHANNEL: DISABLE
FM PORT ADDRESS: 388
MPU PORT ADDRESS: 330
-IRQ CHANNEL: INTA#
JOY PORT ADDRESS: DISABLE
-IRQ MODE: INTA#
-INTA# REQ: 3
-DMA MODE: NOT ASSIGN
-D-DMA BASE: 8000
In Sound Test, I can hear the 16-bit and FM audio tests, but 8-bit is greyed out. If I run a game like Dark Forces, the music works, but there's no sound effects. If I boot up IMUSE, the card defaults to "Adlib" for FM sound and the test works, but for the digital audio side, I tried every single combination of options and none would produce sound.
From what I gather, I need a Sb-link cable or DDMA turned on in the BIOS, but it appears my motherboard doesn't have a Sb-link or PC/PCI port and there's nothing about DDMA in the bios (or anything about either in the manual). There's also no ISA slot.
Am I SOL? Or is there another option? The confusing part to me is that 16-bit audio works fine in setupds but I get no sound effects in game - or does that imply the sound effects are 8-bit?
Thanks in advance for any replies!