Sender: andreas AT ri DOT dasa DOT de
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 11:14:09 +0100
From: Andreas Schulz <Andreas DOT Schulz AT ri DOT dasa DOT de>
Organization: Daimler-Benz Aerospace, Space Infrastructure
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To: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>, opendos AT delorie DOT com,
        Caldera-OpenDOS AT rim DOT caldera DOT com
Subject: Dod702b2 and Creative Labs' AWEUTIL problem
References: <347C1811 DOT 24156A8 AT ri DOT dasa DOT de> <347C66B0 DOT 4109ED23 AT usa DOT net>
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JP Morris wrote to me:
> I wrote:
> > My system:
> > AMD5x86/133 (sometimes /160) - EXP4045 VLB MB - SST2946 VLB Controller
  + TSENG ET4000W32i VLB Graphics - maybe STB ?
> 
> Early stepping AMD/CYRIX processors have problems with EMM386,
> especially when multitasking.  Let me know how you get on.
> 
> > 40MB RAM - WD 720 MB drives C/D/E - Conner CFS420A drive F -
> > 4speed CDROM - SB32AWE - Yamaha SW60XG - ESCOM handy scanner
> > NovellDOS 7.0 patch 15/2 - Win3.1 + patch 3.11 -
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ now OpenDOS 7.02 beta 2

> > BTW: hopefully Dod702 will stop Creative's AWEUTIL TSR from crashing
> >      my system in DOS mode, anyone tried already ?

> I don't know of any problems like this..

Tried different EMM386 setups with 702b2 and AWEUTIL last night...

Test goal was to play the flintstones theme MIDI file with the 
MEGAMIDI V1.61 DOS MIDI player successfully (guess I cannot
hear this tune for the next weeks ;-).

EMM386 options:			result:
FRAME=AUTO			success (*)
FRAME=AUTO MULTI		playing some 10 sec., then reboot
FRAME=AUTO DPMI=ON		playing some 10 sec., then system frozen
FRAME=AUTO DMA=256 use=F000-F5FF	success (*)

(*) also no problem playing other MIDI files

FYI: The AWEUTIL TSR is hooked to the NMI interrupt triggered by the
     SB32AWE PnP whenever a DOS program writes MIDI data to the MPU-401
     I/O port.

rem ========================= CONFIG.SYS
=================================
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\BIN\TREIBER\PLUGPLAY\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
DEVICE=C:\BIN\OPENDOS\EMM386.EXE MULTI DPMI=ON FRAME=AUTO DMA=256
use=F000-F5FF
SHELLHIGH=C:\BIN\OPENDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\BIN\OPENDOS /E:1024 /P 
BREAK=ON
BUFFERSHIGH=4
FILESHIGH=40
FCBSHIGH=4,4
STACKSHIGH=9,512
LASTDRIVEHIGH=N
FASTOPEN=0
HISTORY=ON,512,ON
COUNTRY=49,,C:\BIN\OPENDOS\COUNTRY.SYS

rem =================== autoexec.bat ===================================
PATH C:\BIN\OPENDOS\;C:\BIN\WIN_311
C:\BIN\OPENDOS\KEYB GR+
C:\BIN\TREIBER\VIDEO\UTILITY\VMENU m65
SET CTCM=C:\BIN\TREIBER\PLUGPLAY\CTCM
SET SOUND=C:\BIN\TREIBER\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
C:\BIN\TREIBER\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S /W=C:\BIN\WIN_311
C:\BIN\TREIBER\SB16\AWEUTIL /S
C:\BIN\TREIBER\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q /SE-
rem === load AWEUTIL TSR, triggered by NMI :
C:\BIN\TREIBER\SB16\AWEUTIL /EM:GM