🚀 go-pugleaf

  This finding may be of interest to ESS1868 users who:
with an ESS1868 the 1st time Win-OS2 is started it reports that there is an
incorrect setting for the audio device and then gives sound but that after
shutting it down and restarting no error message is given but neither is
there sound.  The problem was fixed by making the assignment in config.sys 
for /W: to 3 rather than the default installation value of 0 in the line 
that reads:-
DEVICE=D:\MMOS2\ES1868DD.SYS /B:220 /D:1 /F:3 /I:5 /C:4 /M:300,1 /W:3 /N:ES18681$
  Also the setting in auddrive.drv section of \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.INI of 
course has to be:- DMAChannelWave2=3 and PortMPU401=300 to match.  Ensure
the lines:-
D:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\ESSCFG.EXE /A:220 /I:5 /D:1 /E:0 /B:300 /J:E
D:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\ESSVOL.EXE /V:8 /L:8 /W:8 /M:0 /C:8 /S:8 /A:8
are in your OS/2 autoexec.bat (or whatever initialising bat files you might
select).  Use version 5.1 ESSCFG.SYS rather than version 4.9 found with the
1868 distribution file from ESS - http://www.esstech.com.  The 1869 
distribution has version 5.1.  (The 1869 while only 1 digit different does
not work with 1868 driver, you have to use the 1869 driver.  The 1869 has
the 3D sound upgrade).  I don't think the above problem occurs with the
1869.

  It was noteworthy that with the default W:0 in config.sys MS Win-OS2 did
not exhibit this problem.

  There is a version 2.01 1868 distribution.  The current distribution 
from ESS is 1.04 and the distribution from the IBM site is 1.06 but is 
incomplete, possibly broken.  If you can't get a copy from elsewhere e-mail
me.  I acknowledge Jerry McBride sent me my copy.

Regards
Victor Bien
Trying network selling as a means to promote OS/2.