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From: Elliott Oti <blamspam_oti AT fys DOT ruu DOT nl>
Subject: Re: MikMod is broken!
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Colin Walsh wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> I have been trying to get MikMod to work on my system for some time
> now (a few months), and haven't been able to solve this *BIG* problem.
> When I compile it "out of the box" (and it does correctly(?) compile)
> and run the demo mod player, there is no sound, and the song plays
> waaay too quickly.
> 
> I have tried compiling MikMod 2.03, 2.09bd, and 2.10. All experience the
> same problems. Also, the song appears to be playing under Win 4.0 DPMI but
> when run under DOS\CWSDPMI the thing craps out on me... knowing that Win 4.0
> DPMI is really forgiving (makes it look like there are less bugs in the OS :)
> there might be a call gone astray somewhere.
> 
> The odd part about the whole matter is that nothing should be wrong...
> I have an SB16, P133, 16 megs of ram, DJGPP 2.01 (everything has been
> installed correctly and working fine since April), and all I am doing
> is calling make on the DJGPP makefile that comes in all the versions.
> 
> Hoping someone can help,
> Colin Walsh
> cwalsh AT nf DOT sympatico DOT ca

IMO it's a problem with the sound card initialization code. Try running
a program which uses the sound card (digital, no MIDI) and then try your
MikMod program again. You might have to add initialization lines from
another sound library that does work.

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