Re: [Qemu-devel] ES1370 problems with Win98SE

[Rick Vernam]

On Thursday 08 November 2007 10:51:01 pm Kyle Kilpatrick wrote:
> Hello.  First, let me say that I realize this is not exactly the place for
> this.  Non-developer problems with Qemu should go on the Qemu forum... But
> they're down right now, so please bear with me here.  I apologize for
> taking up all you developers' time.
>
> I have a Windows Vista host (I know, mistake # 1) running Win98SE as a
> guest.  I launch QEMU with QEMU Manager instead of the command line.  The
> only problem I have is the sound.  Win98SE correctly recognizes the SB16
> emulated card and it works... But there's a lot of interference in the wave
> sound (haven't tried midi yet).  Not to say that the SB16 emulation is bad
> or anything, it's probably that Vista's revamped sound system is screwing
> things up.  But anyway, I went into Qemu manager and disabled the SB16
> emulation and activated the ES1370 emulation... But Win98 will not
> recognize the emulated ES1370 card, it doesn't even see it.  I tried
> downloading the corresponding driver from Creative's site, and while the
> driver appeared to install correctly, Win98 still does not see the card. 
> What am I doing wrong?

For some reason, I am thinking that I never got the ES1370 card to work unless 
I did funny things with commas in it's declaration in the command line.

In my shell script, I have this: -soundhw ,es1370,
Is that necessary?  I have no clue, but that's what I use & it works.