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UniAud "complete" package contains UniAud.DLL...

Carl Gehr — 2011-09-12T03:33:33

What should be done with the UniAud.DLL file?

The install/update instructions say to copy the two *.SYS
files [UniAud16 and UniAud32] to x:\MMOS2 directory.  But
there is no mention of the DLL file.  I assume it's there
for something, but what?

Sound lost when updating MPlayer

Carl Gehr — 2011-09-10T21:06:38

I recently updated MPlayer to the level contained in:
    mplayer-SVN-r33491-OS2-4_4_5.zip
because I had some videos that would not play at all.

The most recent date/time in that ZIP is:
     29-May-2011   12:44a
The ChangeLog indicated:

The prior MPlayer was designated in the ChangeLog as:

After the upgrade, a number of videos that would not play
with the older version will now play.  The BAD NEWS is that
the sound on ALL videos is now either gone or the volume is
so low that it is barely detectable.

I have tried several levels of UniAud**.DLL, but they made
no difference.  I am currently running:



I know there are later levels, but some have cause system
instability.  This is the one that I've picked, mostly without
any factual basis; only that it seems to cause the fewest
problems.  

BTW, my base platform is:
    ThinkPad T-60
    eCS 2.0 RC2, but I'm really not sure that matters a
                 lot since the two key pieces seem to be
                 MPlayer and UniAud**.

PCI.exe reports [a pa

Test build using ALSA 1.0.24

Paul Smedley — 2011-07-22T04:18:54

Hi All,

I've done a quick compile of Uniaud32 using the ALSA 1.0.24 code.

None of this is checked into SVN right now, and as I had to comment out 
some code to get it compiling (while I investigate further), it is 
considered to be very beta :)

Having said that, it produces sound on my Thinkpad T60, and in my eCS 
2.0 environment under Virtualbox.

URL is http://smedley.info/uniaud32-20110722.zip

Feedback always welcome,

Paul

Repeating end of startup sound problem seems resolved

Peter Brown — 2011-07-07T14:24:39

Hi All

When reporting the latest failures with acpi v3.19 builds I was advised 
that failure to boot was the result of using BootableJFS.

I changed my boot drive to use HPFS.

No, it does not cure any acpi problems.

However, Since changing to HPFS just over 2 weeks ago I have not had 1 
instance of the end of the startup sound getting stuck in a repeat loop 
- I would have expected a couple of instances at least during that time.

So, anyone else that has the startup sound problem and is booting from a 
JFS boot drive may want to try swapping to HPFS to see if it resolves 
that problem.


Regards

Pete

Still awaiting Davids response

Peter Brown — 2011-04-04T12:50:18

Hi David

I've asked in this mailing list several times and in the uniaud bug 
tracker and you have not bothered to reply to my question asking for 
clarification of the hardware involved in your claim that uniaud 
195-1924 works "perfectly" with an nVidia MCP61.

I can only presume that you either cannot be bothered to clarify this or 
that you have not tested your builds on an MCP61.

Either way uniaud builds 195-1924 and and 195-1924 are not of any use on 
an MCP61 chipset here; nor are the 195-211/212 builds.

So, how do I get support for my hardware added to your uniaud builds? - 
bit difficult to communicate when you cannot be bothered to reply.

Regards

Pete

Rejected emails

Peter Brown — 2011-03-09T14:48:29

Hi

Could whoever maintains this mailing list please remove 
v.nekhvyadovich< at >chandler.de as it seems that email address is no longer 
valid.

I say this because I am getting rejected email sent to me everytime that 
a message is posted in this list.

Anyone else seeing this? - just for confirmation.

Regards

Pete

Initialization failed: codec is not ready > hang during boot

Tom Brown — 2011-03-06T18:35:10

I have an intermittent problem with booting eCS 2.0 Silver on a system 
with a Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE motherboard. This board uses a Nvidia 
nForce 4 chipset, with an AC'97 Audio controller.

I have filed a bug report, #198, on the Netlabs bug tracker.

The following error messages appear during boot:

Universal Audio Driver for OS/2 and eComStation v1.9.24-SVNr542
  Based on ALSA 1.0.21
  Copyright 2005-2010 Netlabs http://www.netlabs.org
  Copyright 2000-2010 The ALSA Project

  ERROR: Initialization failed
  OSS32_Initialize. FAILED<3>codec_ready: codec is not ready [0x700100]
                           H:\MMOS2\UNIAUD16.SYS

UNIAUD32.SYS then fails to load and the boot process hangs.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Uniaud and multiple audio devices

Gabriele Gamba — 2011-02-20T14:58:53

Hi all,

latest Uniaud versions correctly detect multiple audio adapters (see
http://trac.netlabs.org/uniaud/ticket/160 ) but unfortunately there is
no way to decide which adapter to use if both your adapters use the same
driver.
Is there any idea for a substitute of /C:CARDNAME switch, that is so
limited?
Otherwise, can't we kill in the meantime the support for audio adapters
from well-known video card producers, like ATI? It seems to me that this
approach would fix the problem with video cards having audio devices on
board.

Please correct me if I'm wrong and thanks!

Gabriele

Uniaud32.sys ERROR: Initialization failed

Tom Brown — 2011-02-16T06:16:29

I am running a Tyan Thunder s2895/K8WE motherboard with two AMD Opteron 
275 Dual core CPUs andd 2 GiB of RAM. This board has an Nvidia nForce 
2200/2050 chipset and "Enhanced AC'97 2.3 compliant audio link" with an 
Audio Devices 1982B codec.

I am running eCS 2.0 Silver with the 14.104 SMP Kernel and PSD as follows:

PSD=ACPI.PSD     /SMP /APIC

Bldlevel shows:

[h:\]bldlevel \os2\boot\acpi.psd
Build Level Display Facility Version 6.12.675 Sep 25 2001
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993-2001
Signature:       < at >#netlabs dot org:3.17#< at >##1## 24 Aug 2009 15:15:09 
pasha::::0::< at >< at > ACPI core PSD
  Driver. (c) netlabs.org 2005-2009
Vendor:          netlabs dot org
Revision:        3.17
Date/Time:       24 Aug 2009 15:15:09
Build Machine:   pasha
File Version:    3.17
Description:     ACPI core PSD Driver. (c) netlabs.org 2005-2009

PCI shows:

Bus 0 (PCI Express), Device Number 4, Device Function 0
  Vendor 10DEh Nvidia Corp
  Device 0059h nForce4 AC'97 Audio Controller
  Command 0007h (I/O Access, Memory Access, Bu

T21 and problems

Dave Saville — 2011-01-17T12:35:25

I have been using an ancient version of uniaud on my T21 with an Intel
82801CA-ICH3 sound. Mixer is Cirrus Logic CS4299. ECS is 1.15.

Most of the time sound plays OK, I don't use system sounds. PM123 
works most of the time but Mplayer often goes into an endless 
"stutter" when playing video. I have noticed that I get a crackle when
moving the mouse. There are 3 devices sharing IRQ5 Int #B:

Intel 82801 - SMBus controller
- Sound

Cardbus controller.

I guess an IRQ needs changing? But not sure how. No ACPI.

Tried the latest uniaud GA and much worse. :-(

TIA

Test Uniaud 195-211

Keith Marjerison — 2010-12-19T00:15:02

Hello All;
I am testing this on an Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard and eCS 2.0 Gold
(without acpi.psd installed). Bios reports Azalia for sound system, and
I can choose HDA or AC97 for front audio which must match the front case
audio header. Mine is set to AC97.
At boot Uniaud reports:
Uniaud v2.1.1-BetaSVN536
HDA ATI SB at 0xfe6f8000 irq 10
Detected Mixer: VIA VT1818S

I have sound but UniMixerPM only sees the line in and mic line all
other options are grayed out.
I am unable to boot with any acpi.psd statement and a uniaud32 (or 16)
statement in config.sys. System does not trap, but after loading
UNIAUD32.SYS, the system slows down and continues to load very slowly
for 10  min. eventually stopping all together and never boots to desktop.
Without acpi.psd the system boots to Desktop in less than 2 min. but no
APM. Sound and all usb ports work.
Without uniaud drivers the system boots with "acpi.psd /smp /cd /r" in
about 3.5 min. It slows down when it comes to USBRESMG.SYS, but does
boot to Desktop. No so

UniAud and PCI e soundcards?

Keith Marjerison — 2010-12-11T01:12:31

Hello All;
Did a search through the forum, saw the question but not an answer.
So again, will the UniAud package work with a PCI e sound card?
Thanks for any help in advance.

Intel HDA/ALC268 - best way to enable sounds at boot?

Peter Brown — 2010-12-08T15:42:05

Hi All

I'm trying to get audio working on an Acer Travelmate 5720 laptop with 
Intel HDA (ICH8?) and Realtek ALC268 mixer.

I have tried various uniaud builds and am currently using uniaud195-1924-v2

All drivers tested seem to load at boot displaying something like HDA 
Intel at xxxxxx IRQ11 - where xxxxxx is some sort of address?

None of the drivers tested play any system sounds - yes System Sounds 
are Enabled and a Scheme is selected.

Using this command in the \mmos2 directory
  unimix -list > uniaud_cntrls.txt
creates a list of Control IDs and shows their state.

Control ID1 has the Name: [Speaker Playback Volume] which has Count of 
values: 2; both values show as 0

I used unimix to try to turn these on:
  unimix -id1 -cnt0 -val64
  unimix -id1 -cnt1 -val64

Both attempts gave a success message and sound seems to play fine; the 
following command shows both speakers active
  unimix -list > unitest.txt

Both vlc and (s)mplayer seem to work OK.

A little later I had to reboot and "lost" sounds again.

Can UNIAUD16/UNIAUD32 handle multiple audio devices ?

Lars Erdmann — 2010-10-14T21:05:02

Hallo,

example: you have an onboard AC '97 compliant audio device and a Cirrus Logic CS4614/22/24/30 PCI plugin card.
UNIAUD supports both (as much as I can tell):
1.) How do you address this problem ? How do you specify and use multiple devices ?
2.) Does the eCS installer support specifying multiple audio devices ?
      How do you specify DIFFERING devices that are both supported by UNIAUD ? (as in the example given above)

For the SoundBlaster you could specify 2 different audio devices by specifing the driver multiple times in config.sys,
with different devices names (/N: parameter) like this (HW resources obviously are also different for the 2 devices):
DEVICE=C:\MMOS2\SB16D2.SYS /C:1 /D:1 /H:5 /I:5 /A:220 /M:300 /P /N:SBAUD1$
DEVICE=C:\MMOS2\SB16D2.SYS /C:2 /D:3 /H:7 /I:9 /A:240 /M:330 /P /N:SBAUD2$

Is something like this also possible with UNIAUD ?

Background: a BUG reporter reported he could not get UNIAUD to work and he had the devices specified above.
After disabling on-board audio device, he c

UNIAUD command line parameters - still needed ?

Lars Erdmann — 2010-10-14T05:32:37

Hallo,

is it still necessary to specify the chipset identifying parameter as listed in:

http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=uniaud

to get uniaud working ? I am talking about parameter /C:<cardname>
If someone with insight to the code would briefly explain to me the detection logic ...

Thanks,
Lars

New Uniaud version - test results

Lars Erdmann — 2010-08-15T20:56:49

Hallo,

my sound HW (on board):

UNIMIX.EXE -card:
Command line mixer for UNIAUD. Version 0.05
Copyright 2004,2005 by Netlabs.org
Written by Vlad Stelmahosky aka Vladest
Detected UNIAUD version 1.92
Detected 1 audio adapter(s)
Card info:
   num: 0
   id: SI7012
   driver: ICH
   name: SiS SI7012
   longname: SiS SI7012 with ALC650E at irq 5
   mixer: Realtek ALC650E

PCI.EXE:
Vendor: 1039h Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
Device: 7012h AC'97 Sound Controller

OS/2 Hardware Manager info:
"SiS SI7012 with ALC650E"

I have tried BOTH RETAIL versions of Uniaud:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/Uniaud195-1924.zip
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/Uniaud195-211.zip


1.) System sounds are ok. Doubleclicking the corresponding WAV files also plays system sounds properly.
2.) Sounds played in Seamonkey (for incoming mail etc.) exhibit a short blip at the end. This is also true for other WAV files that I tried. As far as I can tell I hear this blip only on the very first occasion.
      I have not heard this blip with

Cause of repeating system sounds found and fixed.

Roderick Klein — 2010-08-11T13:06:40

People can read more about this bug, and the fix in bug number 2874 in 
the eComStation bugtracker.

With repeating system sounds I mean that not a portion of a system sound 
is played but the complete sound. This is not caused by 
earlymeminit=true, acpi.psd or uniaud. The cause has been found in 
SND.DLL this DLL is buggy. You fix this your self by logging onto 
www.ecomstation.com and downloading from bug 2874 mmfix.exe and follow 
the instructions in the bugtracker.

Credit for this goes to David Azarewicz! He has been doing a lot to get 
UNIAUD up to a never level on OS/2/eComStation never seen before.
So please continue to test new builds and provide feedback (see 
readme.txt for details).

Regards,

Roderick Klein
Mensys

CS4299A support?

Alan Beagley — 2010-07-31T17:11:15

I have installed eCS2.0GA on an old (10yrs) Toshiba Satellite 3005-S303 
notebook, which TTBOMK has the CS4299A chip.

The audio installer selected UniAud, but the drivers do not get loaded. 
I see references in this ng to CS4299, which was used in some ThinkPads, 
and apparently works. Is it the "A" that is the problem? Is my machine's 
chip different enough that UniAud will not work?

-=-
Alan

Trap0008 with Uniaud194-211 or 1924

Tom Brown — 2010-07-29T16:38:25

I get a trap 0008 immediately after uniaud16.sys loads when testing Uniaud 
194-211 or Uniaud 194-1924. I have reported this as bug # 188.
The system is s Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE with two Opteron 275 dual CPUs.
I am using the 14.104a SMP kernel, but with only one CPU active (no /SMP in the 
PSD statement in config.sys). eCS is 2.0 rc6. The audio hardware is an onboard 
nForce4 AC'97. All of this works with Uniaud 1.1.4.

Should the above hardware work with the current version of Uniaud?

I have tried installing eCS 2.0 GA, but get a trap 0008 at the same point in the 
boot process.

Is there an HDA audio card that works with current Uniaud versions? I need PCI-X 
model as that is the only type of slot I have available.

Thanks!

New Uniaud version uploaded to netlabs

David Azarewicz — 2010-07-28T14:57:36

I uploaded new builds of Uniaud tonight.  These are the official releases that should 
incorporate all the fixes that everyone has already been testing.  Hopefully I didn't break 
anything :-)

I do know that the Uniaud32 version 2.1.1 with the latest ALSA code still has the "pop" at the 
end of sounds.  I haven't had time to track that down yet.

Please READ THE UPDATED WIKI !!!  -->>  http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud
Download links are also there.

David

-----
David Azarewicz
http://www.88watts.net

uniaud193-1923

Steve Wendt — 2010-07-24T05:13:38

On my SB Live 5.1 card, the static at the end of MMOS2 WAV file playback is 
fixed.  Thanks!

However, alsahlp$ has some errors - are any of them meaningful?

Uniaud version 1.9.23-SVN r522

00-00: emu10k1 : ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
 : playback 32
 : capture 1


00-01: emu10k1 mic : Mic Capture
 : capture 1


00-02: emu10k1 efx : Multichannel Capture/PT Playback
 : playback 8
 : capture 1


00-03: emu10k1 : Multichannel Playback
 : playback 1


OSS32_WaveOpen: open error: -19

GetUniaudPcmCaps: wave open error 3 PLAY at pcm 1
OSS32_WaveOpen: open error: -19

GetUniaudPcmCaps: wave open error 3 REC at pcm 3
OSS32_Initialize: SUCCESS. Cards=1
Couldn't find OPL3 device
U16: MixerInit: MIX_VOLUME_MIDI not processed
unknown ioctl = 0x401c4162

U16: WS::AB: BufferMode=1
U16: IACapability: Error support
U16: IACapability: Error support
U16: IACapability: Error support
U16: IACapability: Error support


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