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3.1 Driver installation screwed up, or am I?

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From: Richard Warren Harris
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 12:07
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Hi,

I'm *trying* to install the AdLib sound card driver onto 3.1.  I'm not
having much luck.

I go through the whole procedure with clicking open the Control Panel
and opening Drivers, and then using Add to load the AdLib driver
(msadlib.drv), but all it does is physically copy the driver file into
the system directory.  It doesn't actually reconfigure anything
(though it does allow me to restart windows as if it had).

More puzzling, still, is that going into the system.ini file, and
changing

sound.drv=mmsound.drv (the default) 

to

sound.drv=msadlib.drv (what *seems* to be the thing to do)

obviously is *not* the thing to do, since windows aborts during
startup when I do that.

Has this problem already been solved here?  If so, could somebody tell
me what the solution was?

Thanks,
- Rick

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From: rh0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Warren Harris)
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Subject: 3.1 Driver installation screwed up, or am I?
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Date: 7 Apr 92 12:07:23 GMT
Organization: Senior, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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