README.TXT Driver File Contents (AD1816.zip)

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   		AD1816 Soundport Controller Driver for OS/2
   			Production Release 1.70  WARP 4.0
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I. FILES ON THIS DISKETTE
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AD1816.HLP        - AD1816 Soundport controller help file
AD1816.SCR        - AD1816 Soundport controller file list
AD1816DD.SYS      - AD1816 Soundport controller driver
AUDPLAY.ICO       - Audio ICON
CARDINFO.DLL      - AD1816 Soundport controller card info
CONTROL.SCR       - Install script for MINSTALL
GAMEDD.SYS        - Joystick driver
GAMEVDD.SYS       - Joystick driver
JOYSTK.CH         - Joystick install script
JOYSTK.ICO        - Joystick ICON
MIDIPLAY.ICO   	  - MIDI ICON
MPU401.SYS        - MPU-401 driver
MPURES.DLL        - MPU-401 resource DLL
OPL3.HLP          - OPL3 Help File
OPL3.SYS          - OPL3 driver
OPL3RES.DLL       - OPL3 resource file
README.TXT        - This file
STARWARS.MID      - Sample MIDI file
M1.MID            - Sample MIDI file
HOTOP01.MID       - Sample MIDI file
                        20 file(s)     

II. BEFORE YOU BEGIN
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Proper operation of the AD1816 Soundport
Controller requires that:

     --You are using OS/2 Warp version 4.0 (for this version of the driver.)
     --The OS/2 Multimedia Extensions are installed.
     --The Analog Devices AD1816 driver is installed.

NOTE: You must have the OS/2 Multimedia Extensions installed
           BEFORE you install this driver. You will use the OS/2
           Multimedia Extensions to install and configure the AD1816
           Soundport Controller driver.

If your installation fails, you may need to update some of
your OS/2 system files. See the "Troubleshooting" section
for more information.

III. CHECKING FOR THE OS/2 MULTIMEDIA EXTENSIONS
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Check your system for the following conditions:

     --If the extensions are already installed you will see the
       "Multimedia Setup" icon in your OS/2 System Setup folder in
       the OS/2 System folder on the desktop. If the extensions
       are already installed, skip ahead to the procedure
       "INSTALLING THE AD1816 SOUNDPORT CONTROLLER DRIVER."

     --If the "Multimedia Setup" icon is not present, OS/2 Multimedia
       Extensions may not yet be installed. Install the
       extensions using the following procedure.

IV. INSTALLING THE MULTIMEDIA EXTENSIONS
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    To install the Multimedia Extensions:

     1.Open the "OS/2 System" folder on the OS/2 desktop. Double-
        click the "System Setup" icon.
     2.From the "System Setup" window, double-click the
        "Selective Install" icon to display the "System
        Configuration" window. The box labeled "Multimedia Device
        Support" in the lower left corner of the "System
        Configuration" window should read "None".
     3.Click the "OK" button. The "OS/2 Setup and Installation"
        window appears.
     4.Check the box next to "Multimedia Software Support". You
        should now see a check mark in that box.
     5.Click the "Install" button. OS/2 will begin installing
        the extensions. Follow all on-screen instructions,
        including the last one that instructs you to restart your
        system. Once your system has restarted, use the following
        procedure to install the driver for the AD1816 Soundport
	Controller.

V. INSTALLING THE  AD1816 SOUNDPORT CONTROLLER DRIVER
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     1.Open the "OS/2 System" folder on the OS/2 desktop. Double-
        click the "System Setup" folder.  Double-click the 
	"Install/Remove" folder. Run the 
	"Multimedia Application Install" program.
     2.Insert the AD1816 Soundport Controller OS/2 4.0 Driver
        Diskette into your diskette drive.
     3.Use the drop-down "Drive" list box to select the drive
        letter, A: or B:, that contains the diskette.
     4.By default, the AD1816 driver installation does not install
        the MPU-401 support for MIDI devices (since this is not a
	very common installation option). If you want MPU-401 support,
	 click  the "IBM MPU-401" line to place a check mark next to it.
     5.Click the "Install" button. If you receive a warning that
        the program will change your CONFIG.SYS file, click the
        "Yes" button to allow the program to make the required
        changes.
     6.The "AD1816" window appears. This window
        displays the configuration information for the AD1816
        Soundport Controller.  Note that the AD1816 Soundport
	Controller has no jumpers or switches;
        all of the hardware configuration is from this window.
     7.Click the "OK" button. You will receive several
        additional notifications: installation windows for
        several driver components,  that your CONFIG.SYS file was
        backed up, and that the installation is complete. Click
        "OK" on each of these alerts.
     8.Exit OS/2 and reboot your system. When you reboot your
        system you should hear the OS/2 start-up sounds,
        indicating that your audio card is properly installed and
        working.

VI. CONFIGURING THE  3D SOUND FEATURES
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     The AD1816 Soundport Controller can produce
sound in simulated 3D. This feature is controlled using the
card's configuration window for the default settings. If the OS/2
mixer is installed, it can also be controlled from there, or the
DOS mixer can also be used. To access these settings:

     1.Open the "OS/2 System" folder on the OS/2 desktop. Double-
        click the "System Setup" icon.
     2.From its window, run "Selective Install" to display the
        "System Configuration" window.
     3.In the "System Configuration" window, the "Multimedia
        Device Support" drop-down list should show the "AD1816
        Soundport" as the active device. Click the
        square button next to the device name.
     4.Click the "Device Settings" button to display the card's
        hardware settings.The "AD1816" window
        appears. This window contains controls to turn 3D effects
        on or off, and change the acoustic properties of the 3D
        simulation algorithm.
     5.After you have changed the settings, click the "OK"
        button. The changed settings take effect immediately, and
        are written to your CONFIG.SYS file to be used when you
        start OS/2.

VII. TROUBLESHOOTING
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    Even though this is a PnP card, there still can be unresolved
resource conflicts. This can occur if there are no more free IRQs for
the card to use or if a non PnP card is using resources and the OS/2
RESERVE.SYS driver has not been updated to tell OS/2 about these legacy
cards in the system. RMVIEW or the Hardware Manager in the OS/2 Setup
folder can tell you what is currently being used and can help resolve
any problems.
	

VIII. PROBLEMS OBSERVED AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
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    This driver install is for WARP 4.0 and above only. It will not
work properly for WARP 3.0 and earlier. There is a version of the install
package for those systems available.
			
VIII. KNOWN PROBLEMS IN THIS RELEASE
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    There are four known problems that will be corrected in sub-sequent releases. 
Where required, we are working with IBM to resolve these problems as quickly 
and efficiently as possible. Three of the problems relate to a conflict between 
multimedia applications and the use of system sounds. These problems can 
be solved by turning off system sounds.
  
  Problem 1
     The Digital Audio applet gives an error message after you:

     1.Click Record.
     2.Click Stop.
     3.Click New.
     4.Click Discard.

     The error message may say that either the device is busy or
     that there was a device error.

     This is a problem with the way Digital Audio interacts with
     the device driver while Warp trys to play system sounds. To
     avoid this problem, turn off system sounds. Alternatively,
     close Digital Audio and restart it to continue, or save the
     recorded audio to a file.
  
  Problem 2
     The MIDI Player Applet displays an error after you take the
     following steps:

     1.Start playing a MIDI file using the MIDI Player applet.
     2.Bring up another multimedia application, such as Master
       Volume or Digital Audio.
     3.Click on the MIDI Player applet.
     4.Close the other application.
     5.Click the MIDI Player applet Start button.

     This is a problem wih the way MIDI Player interacts with the
     device driver while Warp trys to play system sounds. To
     avoid this problem, turn off system sounds.
  
  Problem 3
     When playing a MIDI file, switching to master volume
     control, then back to MIDI play causes the MIDI audio to
     appear to be muted.
     This is a problem with the way Warp plays systems sounds.
     Turn off system sounds to avoid this problem.
  
  Problem 4
     The audio cards are plug-and-play cards. OS/2
     Warp 4.0 supports plug-and-play. It will enumerate the ISA PnP 
     cards it finds, but only after first time install. If a card
     is removed or changed, the default is for WARP 4.0 to not update
     it's device list. If you ad or remove ISA PnP cards, use the
     Alt-F1 key while the OS/2 'white box' is in the upper left corner
     of the screen while booting to get the recovery choices menu.
     Select F5 to re-snoop the PnP cards. This can be made the default
     if you want, but it slows down booting the machine.

     If the system appears to behave strangely, that is,
     audio files play continuously, or the system appears to
     freeze, or a sound file snippet plays continuously, or other
     devices behave unexpectedly, some ROM setup modifications
     may be necessary. Most plug-and-play enabled systems have a
     ROM-based setup menu which allows different plug-and-play
     options. It may be necessary to try different plug-and-play
     settings within these ROM-based BIOS settings to allow
     proper operation of the device in certain
     systems.

     For example, a Gateway-2000 P5-133 system required setting
     the "Plug-and-Play Configuration" mode to "Use ICU or PnP
     OS" with an Operating System setting of "Other OS" in order
     for the AD1815 card to work properly. The AD1816 does not
     require this option. Other systems may require other
     settings in order for these cards to work properly.

IX. DRIVER REFERENCE -- FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY
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     WARNING: The following information allows advanced users to
     adjust driver parameters. Improper use of the parameters can
     damage your system. DO NOT attempt to adjust parameters if
     you are not knowledgeable in OS/2 driver and system
     configuration issues.
     
  
 A. AD1816DD.SYS - AD1816 Soundport controller device driver
     This device driver initializes the AD1816 for WAV, MIDI,
     and Joystick operation, as specified by the device driver 
     command line parameters. Plug-and-play resources specified 
     by the operating system will be used. This driver also
     supports the WAV file format for playback and record.
     
        DEVICE=c:\mmos2\ad1816dd.sys <parameter list>

        Where <parameter list> is :
 
        Option      - Description (Default value)
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        /N:$strng$  - Device driver name assigned by MINSTALL
        /3:y        - 3D Phase expansion (0-31)
     
     Note: For OS/2 before 4.0, there are command line arguments
     that describe the resources used by the driver. These arguments
     are ignored by the driver under 4.0. If you are using this driver
     with older OS/2 than 4.0, pleae get the 3.0 version of the install
     program that handles these arguments correctly.
  
  B. OPL3, or FM Synthesis device driver
     This driver provides the support required for FM synthesis
     through OPL3   emulation. The AD1816DD driver initializes
     the OPL3, and allows the OPL3 driver to control FM
     synthesis.
     
        DEVICE=c:\mmos2\opl3.sys /P:xxx /N:OPL31$
     
        /P:xxx      - Base address of OPL3
        /N:$strng$  - Device driver name assigned by MINSTALL
     
  
  C. GAMEDD, or Joystick support
     This driver provides OS/2 Joystick support.
     
        DEVICE=c:\mmos2\gamevdd.sys
        DEVICE=c:\mmos2\gamedd.sys
     
     These device drivers take no parameters.
  
  D. MPU-401 Device Interface
     This driver provides the MPU-401 device support required for
     external MIDI devices.
     
       DEVICE=c:\mmos2\mpu401.sys <parameter list>
     
       /Pn:yyy  - Base I/O: Sets the base I/O address for port n, usually 300 
                     or 330 (# is in hex)

       /In:yyy  - IRQ level: Sets the IRQ level for port n.  yyy is a decimal 
                     number from 1 to 15.  If the base I/O address for a given 
                     port is specified (e.g. /P1:300), but the IRQ is _not_ 
                     specified, the driver will attempt to autodetect the IRQ.  
                     Note that an IRQ is not used for MMPM/2 playback anyway.
   
       /L       - Long name support.  If specified, /L directs the driver to
                     include the base I/O address and the IRQ in the instance name
                     for RTMIDI Type A registration.  For example, without /L the
                     instance name might be "MPU-401 #1".  With /L, it would look
                     like "MPU-401 #1 (I/O=0330, IRQ=05)"
   
       /N:sss   - Driver name, an 8-character length string, ending in a $. Do
                     not specify a port number.  Default is "MPU401$".
   
       /Q       - Tells the driver to ignore errors when initializating the
                     hardware for playback.  May be necessary for some cards.
   
       /R:yyy   - Resolution of MMPM/2 timing.  If the highres timer 
                     (TIMER0.SYS) is installed, this parameter tells the MPU-401 
                     driver what resolution to use (where yyy is the number of 
                     milliseconds) when playing MMPM/2 MIDI streams.  Default is 
                     one millisecond.  Default is 2.
   
       /V       - Verbose output during boot.  If used, this should be the first parameter.

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