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- From: CZTF@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CZTF)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: sound card in docking station: help?
- Message-ID: <27DEC92.25846664.0062@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 04:55:55 GMT
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- Organization: McGill University
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- Hi folks.
- I've been trying to, and have pretty much given up on, put a
- sound card (ATI's Sound F/X) in the docking station that you can
- buy for this 386DX notebook (sold under many names, including
- Eurocom and one that starts with a D which I can't remember).
-
- No amount of changing IRQ lines or port addresses helps, and of
- course I've disabled all the battery-saving resident utilities
- and shadowing; it seems to be a DMA problem, and I remember my
- old Toshiba T1000 suprising me by not actually having a real
- DMA chip: some laptops seem to have non-standard DMA handling,
- and this sound card cannot be assigned to another DMA channel.
-
- The docking station handles other stuff fine (Targa and Vista cards)
- but behaves strangely when using a VGA card (you're allowed having
- an external card replace the on-board): all drawing routines seem
- uneven and much slower, and this is the same program (a telepropmpter)
- that choked on the old Toshiba's DMA "emulation".
-
- Does anybody out there know a way around this sort of thing? Or have
- similar problems with this docking station? I'm looking for a MIDI-
- capable card that won't barf in this situation. Please send email and
- I'll summarize for fellow docking station users. Thanks.
-
- Mark
-
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- Morgenstern________________________________________cztf@musica.mcgill.ca
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