| 4 | | Thank you for downloading Uniaud |
| 5 | | Uniaud is still under development and we need your feedback to improve |
| 6 | | uniaud. Its very important that you also report soundcards that work! |
| | 4 | Thank you for downloading Uniaud, the Universal Audio Support Driver for |
| | 5 | OS/2 and eComStation. Uniaud is still under development and we need your |
| | 6 | feedback to improve it. It is very important that you report your experiences, |
| | 7 | both for sound cards which work and for those which may have problems (see |
| | 8 | Supported Hardware). |
| 11 | | of PCI audio cards/chipsets and AC 97 audio codecs. AC 97 audio codecs |
| 12 | | you will find in modern systems with a Pentium II or higher build onto the |
| 13 | | motherboard. AC 97 depends for a part of the motherboard chipset |
| 14 | | and a small audio codec. |
| | 14 | of PCI audio cards/chipsets, including AC'97 and HDA audio codecs. AC'97 |
| | 15 | audio codecs will be found in systems with integrated (onboard) audio, |
| | 16 | typically built up through 2004. HDA codecs will be found in modern systems |
| | 17 | with integrated audio, built during or after 2004. |
| 28 | | Describe your bug briefly. Most importantly include the following files: |
| | 34 | Describe your bug briefly, but be as specific as possible. If your system has |
| | 35 | some exotic hardware which may or may not be involved, mention this in your |
| | 36 | report. Describe whatever steps you deem necessary to recreate the condition, |
| | 37 | whether the condition occurs sometimes, always, or very rarely. Mention any |
| | 38 | troubleshooting steps you have attempted prior to raising the ticket. |
| 30 | | 1. If your system boots, but you don't get sound or sound is broken |
| 31 | | or played to fast, goto an OS/2 command line. And type the following: |
| 32 | | "copy alsahlp$ uniaud.log". |
| 33 | | |
| 34 | | 2. Next from the command line run "unimix.exe -list >mixer.txt". |
| 35 | | |
| 36 | | 3. Download pci.exe Veit Kannegieser from |
| 37 | | http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/os2/util/misc |
| 38 | | In this directory you will find a file called |
| 39 | | pciXXXvka.zip. Where XXX is the version number. Use the search option |
| 40 | | in your webbrowser to search this page for the text PCI. |
| 41 | | Download this file and unzip it in a directory. |
| 42 | | From a command line run PCI.EXE >hardware.txt. |
| 43 | | This will generate an overview off all hardware in your system. |
| 44 | | |
| 45 | | When you have entered your bug in Track you can attach the files to |
| 46 | | the bug via your web browser. |
| | 40 | Finally, per the above recommendation, attach the unilog.zip archive to the |
| | 41 | ticket. |
| 51 | | If you get a TRAP (a black screen with for example |
| 52 | | TRAP 000e) after you installed UNIAUD. You should only do this |
| 53 | | if you have a floppy drive in your system or a memory dump partition |
| 54 | | (we provide no support on how to put up this last item). |
| | 46 | N.B.: You should only do this if you have a floppy drive in your system or a |
| | 47 | memory dump partition. Support and directions for setting up the latter are |
| | 48 | beyond the scope of this document, but detailed instructions may be found at |
| | 49 | the following url: |
| | 50 | http://home.earthlink.net/~steve53/os2diags/TrapDumpRef.txt |
| 56 | | Press CTRL ALT F10 twice (note never do this on a running system!!). |
| 57 | | You will now be asked to insert a diskette (please note the complete |
| 58 | | diskette will be wiped!!). You _only_ need to fill up one diskette |
| 59 | | to get the trap screen. Then restart your system, you can run this script: |
| 60 | | http://home.earthlink.net/~steve53/os2diags/DumpTrapScreen.zip |
| 61 | | to extract the trap s creen from the diskette. |
| | 52 | 1. Press Ctrl-Alt-F10 twice (note never do this on a running system!!). |
| | 53 | You will be asked to insert a diskette (please note the complete |
| | 54 | diskette will be wiped!!). You _only_ need to fill up one diskette to |
| | 55 | get the trap screen. |
| | 56 | 2. Insert the diskette. |
| | 57 | 3. When prompted to insert the next diskette, reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del, |
| | 58 | and either allow the system to boot normally, or follow one of the |
| | 59 | recovery procedures outlined above to temporarily disable Uniaud. |
| | 60 | 4. Upon a successful boot, you may download and run this script: |
| | 61 | http://home.earthlink.net/~steve53/os2diags/DumpTrapScreen.zip to |
| | 62 | extract the trap screen from the diskette. |
| 102 | | Start install.cmd and click on click on yes or OK where requested by |
| 103 | | minstall. You will get 1 or 2 dialogs where you can toggle the amount |
| 104 | | of installed cards between 0 to 1. This is set by default to |
| 105 | | 1 don not change this setting. After minstall is finished reboot your |
| 106 | | system. |
| | 105 | Uniaud installs using the built-in multimedia installer in OS/2 or |
| | 106 | eComStation. Therefore, once you have downloaded the file(s) mentioned above, |
| | 107 | simply unzip the package to a safe place and run install.cmd from that |
| | 108 | directory. This will launch the multimedia installer which will guide you |
| | 109 | through the process. |
| 108 | | If you are having loops in the sound (when audio is played). |
| 109 | | Or you get lockups of your system or a kerneltrap, do the following. |
| 110 | | Restart your system. And when in he upper left hand in the corner |
| 111 | | of the screen you see a white little blob. This little blob |
| 112 | | is shown before the boot logo (with the OS/2 or eComStation logo is shown). |
| 113 | | Press the key combination ALT F1. Then choose from the "Recovery Choices" |
| 114 | | choose "F5 full hardware detection". |
| | 111 | If you are not installing support for an HDA card, then simply reboot at the |
| | 112 | end of the installation; you are likely done (restarting the desktop will not |
| | 113 | suffice, as the driver needs to be loaded from CONFIG.SYS). If you are |
| | 114 | installing HDA support, then one file must be overlaid (see the next section |
| | 115 | for details). DO NOT REBOOT FOLLOWING THE INITIAL INSTALLATION. |
| 116 | | You can check the so called buildlevel of the Uniaud32.sys |
| 117 | | and uniaud16.sys by typing bldlevel.exe driveletter:\MMOS2\UNIAUDXX.SYS |
| 118 | | and you will see the buildlevel of the files you have. |
| 119 | | If you already have UNIAUD installed and you have updated drivers |
| 120 | | you can copy the UNIAUD16.SYS and UNIAUD32.SYS to \MMOS2 manualy. |
| | 117 | To provide HDA support, you should download the (experimental) HDA-enabled |
| | 118 | uniaud32.sys as mentioned above. Unzip the distribution to a safe location, |
| | 119 | peruse the readme, and copy uniaud32.sys on top of the one previously |
| | 120 | installed in your \MMOS2 directory. Once this is done, as an added precaution, |
| | 121 | you may want to disable system sounds (these have been known to cause hangs as |
| | 122 | the desktop comes up, presumably due to the overlapping of them as one event |
| | 123 | follows quickly after the other). Shut down and reboot (the driver must be |
| | 124 | loaded from CONFIG.SYS, so merely restarting the desktop will not produce the |
| | 125 | desired effect). |
| 150 | | DEVICE=D:\MMOS2\UNIAUD32.SYS /V /C:CARDNAME |
| 151 | | - /V Verbose |
| 152 | | - /C:CARDNAME |
| 153 | | Where CARDNAME is : |
| 154 | | - SBLIVE : Sound Blaster Live! |
| 155 | | - CS4281 : Cirrus Logic CS4281 |
| 156 | | - ALS4000 : Avance Logic ALS4000 |
| 157 | | - CMEDIA : C-Media CMI8738, CMI8338 |
| 158 | | - ICH : Intel ICHx, NFORCE1/2/3 |
| 159 | | - CS46XX : Cirrus Logic CS4280, CS46XX |
| 160 | | - VIA82XX : VIA VT82C686A/B/C, VT8233A/C, VT8235 |
| 161 | | - ESS1938 : ESS Solo-1 (ESS 1938) |
| 162 | | - MAESTRO : ESS Maestro1/2/2E, TerraTec DMX |
| 163 | | - MAESTRO3 : ESS Maestro3/Allegro/Canyon3D-2 |
| 164 | | - YAMAHA : Yamaha YMF 724/724F/740/740C/744/754 |
| 165 | | - ENSONIQ : Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371/73, Creative Labs SB PCI64/128 |
| 166 | | - ALI5451 : ALI 5451 |
| 167 | | - TRIDENT : Trident 4D Wave, SI7018 |
| 168 | | Force detection of specified audio hardware |
| | 151 | DEVICE=x:\MMOS2\UNIAUD32.SYS /V /C:CARDNAME |
| | 152 | - /V - Verbose |
| | 153 | - /C:CARDNAME - Force detection of specified audio hardware |
| | 154 | Where CARDNAME is: |
| | 155 | - SBLIVE : Sound Blaster Live! |
| | 156 | - CS4281 : Cirrus Logic CS4281 |
| | 157 | - ALS4000 : Avance Logic ALS4000 |
| | 158 | - CMEDIA : C-Media CMI8738, CMI8338 |
| | 159 | - ICH : Intel ICHx, NFORCE1/2/3 |
| | 160 | - CS46XX : Cirrus Logic CS4280, CS46XX |
| | 161 | - VIA82XX : VIA VT82C686A/B/C, VT8233A/C, VT8235 |
| | 162 | - ESS1938 : ESS Solo-1 (ESS 1938) |
| | 163 | - MAESTRO : ESS Maestro1/2/2E, TerraTec DMX |
| | 164 | - MAESTRO3 : ESS Maestro3/Allegro/Canyon3D-2 |
| | 165 | - YAMAHA : Yamaha YMF 724/724F/740/740C/744/754 |
| | 166 | - ENSONIQ : Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371/73, Creative Labs SB PCI64/128 |
| | 167 | - ALI5451 : ALI 5451 |
| | 168 | - TRIDENT : Trident 4D Wave, SI7018 |
