First post, by Omniverse
I managed to find the DOS driver files for my Sound Blaster Live! sound card, but if I try to load them in FreeDOS I get an error indicating that a memory manager like EMM386 needs to be running in order to load the sblive drivers.
I've tried using both FreeDOS's EMM386.EXE and UMBPCI.SYS and the drivers complain with either.
I actually found a copy of the old EMM386.exe from an old version of DOS (I think. It didn't come from an incredibly reputable source). If I load it, the sblive drivers load, but the PC completely locks up (CTRL-ALT-DEL won't even work) if I try to load any programs that use sound.
I've tried adding both the NOEMS and NOVCPI options to EMM386.EXE (both the freedos and ms-dos versions) and still no go. I'm at a loss as far as what to do next.