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I had to go back to the original ESS driver after FP32 under Warp
Connect on my ThinkPad 365xd.

Mark

Victor Bien wrote:
> 
>   Thanks mainly to Jerry McBride whose comments and experiences helped me to get
> the ESS1868 card working fully with FP26!  I'm not sure how crucial it is to use
> the Version 2.01 of the ES1868DD.SYS driver which he forwarded, but here are my
> findings.
>   Well, I did try varying the settings in the CMOS but this made no difference
> that mattered.  When PnP was switched on you could leave the various switches out
> e.g. I/O, IRQ etc.  The problem was that TIMER0.SYS would not load.  Its
> successful loading was crucial for playing MIDI files despite what Erik
> Huelsmann said.  Without it the MIDI player just crashes as soon as a MIDI
> file is loaded.  The same happens with FP17 unless BASEDEV=TIMER0.SYS
> is unremmed.  I tried the HD on another mainboard, also Gigabyte, but a
> different model (I use a HD drawer caddy to make swapping HDs easy but on
> this other machine I had to temporarily swap out the ESS1869 card for the 1868
> which is a bit of a pain).  I tried both the versions of TIMER0.SYS that I had.
> The one in the version 1.04 and 2.01 drivers from ESS was dated 27.9.95 and
> is 3030 bytes.  The one from a Warp4 box is 3026 bytes dated 9.8.96.
> However, what was important was to overwrite the FP26 versions of
> \OS2\BOOT\CLOCK01.SYS and CLOCK02.SYS with the ESS versions (which
> are older and slightly larger files).  When this was done TIMER0.SYS loads!
> and the MIDI player comes to life!
>   I agree with Jerry McBride's experience - the 1868 won't work with FP32
> (I haven't bothered with the "non-public" release FPs such as FP31.  There
> you have no hope since the ES1868DD.SYS drivers throws such an exception the
> operating system just stops with a Trap 000D error.
>   Well I've advanced from FP17 to FP26 with the ESS1868!  I still think
> it's a great card despite the difficulties because it can take
> concurrent access from Win-OS/2 sessions unlike the Sound Blaster which
> just gives an error message when this happens.
> 
> Regards
> Victor Bien
> VCB Computing(R)
> Trying out network distribution to promote OS/2

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