From: Gib Copeland [copeland@jenni.path.uiowa.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:32 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: no MMOV sound on AlphaStation 500

The release notes explain what needs to be done to configure the unsupported
ES1888 Sound Card - you need an entry in SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$USER_CONFIG.DAT
describing the device:

device    = "ES1888 Sound Card"
  name    = AU
  driver  = MMOV$ESSDRIVER
  adapter = XBUS
  id      = ES1888
end_device

I'm not sure why your MMOV$SERVER process was not running, the error log
usually indicates if there's a license problem.  I suspect that once you
tell VMS about AUA0: (above edit + reboot) and restart the server, all will
be well.

Gib

Christoph Gartmann wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> MMOV programs don't find any sound devices on my AlphaStation 500. It is
> MMOV V2.2 under VMS 7.1-2. I know that this combination worked before but
> I didn't use it since quite some time and now I am a bit lost.
> 
> What I noticed so far: the MMOV process wasn't running although it should
> have been started during system startup. The same is true for some other nodes
> in my cluster. The ones that have the process running don't show audio devices
> either. But starting MMOV manually shows no problems (besides the fact that
> there are no sound devices). If I connect a headphone to the sound card I
> am able to hear the standard "system beep". So the card is electronically ok.
> 
> The file SYS$STARTUP:MMOV_ERROR.LOG is empty.
> I noticed that SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$USER_CONFIG.DAT is located in the common root
> and contains several different entries for "Microsoft Sound Card" plus an
> entry for "Ensoniq AudioPCI". Additionally SYS$SYSTEM:SYSTEM.INI contains
> both entries: wave=mmov$ensaudio and wave=mmov$msbaudio
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
>    Christoph Gartmann
> 
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