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Article #3213.1 Driver installation screwed up, or am I?
From: Richard Warren Harris
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 12:07
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Harris | Information & Decision Systems/Computer Science Senior. Finally. | Social & Decision Sciences Department rh0i+@andrew.cmu.edu | Carnegie Mellon (so hire me) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I not only want a car that is built in accordance with the basic principles of physics and in light of an empirically verified, well-winnowed tradition of automobile design, but I also want it screwed together right." - Edward W. Constant II, "The Social Locus of Technological Practice: Community, System, or Organization?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rh0i+ From: rh0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Warren Harris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: 3.1 Driver installation screwed up, or am I? Message-ID: <MdsN1vW00WB9MjgU8G@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 7 Apr 92 12:07:23 GMT Organization: Senior, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 42