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from: NEILL BARRETT
date: 1997-12-31 13:25:00
subject: Win-OS/2 sound driver prob

All:
        I recently bought a SoundBlaster AWE 32 PnP sound card to use under 
DOS, Windows, and OS/2 (and Linux, for that matter, but that's a different 
thing).  I went ahead and installed the drivers for Win3.1/DOS, which worked 
fine, and I also installed the drivers for OS/2.  Then, when I went ahead and 
installed the drivers for Win-OS/2, and then rebooted (via BootManager) into 
DOS/Win3.1, my Windows wouldn't start up properly, as PROGMAN caused a GPF in 
CSPMAN.DLL.  I had to comment out the Wav= line in my SYSTEM.INI file to get 
Win3.1 under DOS to start correctly.
        I talked to someone else about this problem, and the issue boils down 
to Win-OS/2 drivers trying to call OS/2 drivers in a DOS-native 
environment(!) (the settings I'm using are the same regardless of base OS).  
He also said that the Windows drivers should work regardless of base OS.  
I've thought about installing a copy of Windows onto my OS/2 boot drive, but 
am afraid to because I fear something going wrong during installation (I was 
planning to install Win3.1 in a full-screen OS/2-DOS session).  I'm not crazy 
about juggling sets of SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI files, because I've been down 
that road, and it can (and sometimes does) get messy.  Any suggestions (even 
ones I'm not crazy about)?
        Thanks, and later,
        Neill
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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