I'm trying to install SoundBlaster drivers inside the DOSEMU emulation. I presume this has been possible for someone, because in the README it says: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 9.3. VxD support By the time of writing this, DOSEMU does not have support for Windows ring-0 device drivers (.vxd, .386). Fortunately, most of Windows 3.1 drivers are ring-3 ones (.drv), so you can easily install the Sound Blaster drivers, for instance. This is not the case with Windows 3.11. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It talks about using them in Windows 3.1, which I would like to do when all this is working, but for now, the driver installer I'm using runs from straight DOS, so the problem I'm having is not a Windows problem. I've run into these two problems with the DOS installer I have: First, it was telling me C: was a "network drive," which I presumed was because the emulated C: drive was really a Linux subdirectory whose size and properties couldn't be probed. So I fixed that problem by doing the install from a 250MB hardfile created with mkfatimage16, with DOS and Windows 3.1 installed on it, and it no longer complains about C: being a network drive. But now the second problem I'm now having is it gets a little farther into the install, and now it just freezes without finishing (and with no errors explaining why). Does anyone have any advice, or links to a version of the SoundBlaster drivers that is known to be installable in DOSEMU? I'd like to get sound and if possible MIDI working in Windows 3.1. MIDI is already working for me in bare DOS for programs that write directly to 0x330, but I'll need a driver to get that support for Windows programs. -- - Brent Busby + =============================================== + "The introduction of a new kind of music must -- Studio -- + be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for -- Amadeus/ -- + styles of music are never disturbed without -- Keycorner -- + without affecting the most important political -- Recording -- + institutions." --Plato, "Republic" ----------------+ ===============================================
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