valnar wrote:
2) I assume it should be possible to get both running. It appears the Yamaha requires IRQ 7, so I'd just set the Aureal to IRQ 5.
I recently put a yamaha 724 card in my a7m266 alongside an mx300 with roland scb7; usiing windows 98. I only play dos games in a windows dos box. Yamaha is 240/7/0 and aureal is 220/5/1 [in system control panel] or 220/5/3 [autoexec blaster line - shouldn';t this be the same?]. Not using a link cable.
I started to get random freezes on boot up and on shut down. There were also problems getting dos games to play through the right soundcards. I couldn't get them to use the yamaha for sound and the roland for music. And soimetimes a game would not play sound on a card that had been selected by setting blaster variable and pointing at the right resources.
Running 2 hardware configurations - with one sound card completely disabled under each - seems to have solved the freezes and games play sound and music now. Can't get yamaha sound + roland music but that hardly matters. Only problem is sound levels seem awry.
In windows of course, I can have all things enabled and for example compare midi played through roland and xg.
PS. I notice I have some multi-media device that windows can't find drivers for , but everything seems to work and it was like that before inserting the yamaha.
PPS. Also had that problem where changing a sound driver or whatever messes up the display properties. Not seen that for years...