OS/2 Warp Compatible Hardware List Web site: Sound chips

General chip sets

(Version: page rev. 1.33/ 18.02.2004)

If you don't know the chip of your sound card, see the sound cards page or the code which is printed on top of the chip, or check the web site of the manufacturer of your sound card or motherboard. If these methods fail, use the latest version of the PCI hardware sniffer which has been ported by Veit Kannegieser. Search for pci*vk.zip at Hobbes.

Most of the time sound card vendors don't write OS/2 drivers themselves. But that does not necessarily mean that a card is not supported, because often the manufacturers of chip sets which are used to build the sound card, IBM, or freeware developers write drivers for certain chip sets. This results in support for all sound cards which use the specific chip set, albeit sometimes not all of a sound cards special features are supported.

Tbl.2: OS/2- and eComStation-compatible sound card chip sets (PCI)

Vendor Aureal Avance Logic Crystal Crystal CreativeLabs CreativeLabs C-Media Ensoniq /
Creative Labs Ensoniq /
Creative Labs ESS ESS ESS ESS ESS ESS ESS Yamaha Yamaha IBM/Innotek ALSA driver ALSA 2 Project Vendor

Chipset AU8820 ALS4000 CS 4630, CS4614, CS4624, CS4280 CS4610, CS4612, CS4614, CS4615, CS4622, CS4624, CS4630, CS4280, CS4281 EMU 10K1 EMU 10K2 CMI8738, CMI 8738b, CMI8338a, CMI8338b ES1371 ES1373/CT5880 ES1938, ES1946, ES1969 ES1948 ES1968 ES1978 ES1980, ES1988, ES1989, ES 1930 ES1970 ? Win-OS/2 driver for ESS PCI sound cards without included Win-OS/2 driver YMF724D (bzw. E) YMF724F (DS-1), YMF740C (DS-1L), YMF744B (DS-1S), YMF754 (DS-1E) Creativ Labs EMU10+EMU10K2, Avance Logic ALS4000, Crystal CS4281, C-Media CMI8738 Creativ Labs EMU10+EMU10K2, Avance Logic ALS4000, Crystal CS4281, C-Media CMI8738, ESS Solo-1 (ESS 1938); ESS Maestro1/2/2E; ESS Maestro3/Allegro/Canyon3D-2, Yamaha YMF 724/724F/740/740C/744/754, Ensoniq ES1371/1373, Creative Labs 5880,Trident 4DWave Chipset

alternative description A3D, Vortex1 SB Audigy, SB Audigy 2 Solo1 Maestro1 Maestro-2 Maestro-2e Allegro-1 (ES1988+ES1989), Maestro-3 (ES1980) Canyon3D-2 DS-1 DS-1, DS-1L, DS-1S, DS-1E alternative description

alternative driver / ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver Crystal or IBM/Innotek driver IBM/Innotek ALSA driver, ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver IBM/Innotek ALSA driver, ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver / generic Win-OS/2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver ALSA 2 driver / alternative driver

Driver version 1.0 See IBM or ALSA2 driver 3.11 See IBM or ALSA2 driver 0.80 beta See IBM or ALSA 2 driver 0.19 beta 1.01 1.01 1.17 1.0 Beta 1.0 Beta 1.0 Beta 2.0 See ALSA2 driver 2.0 1.01 1.01 1.04b 1.09 Driver version

Features

Wave x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Wave

Max. wave channels 64 n/a n/a n/a 32 n/a 4 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a / n/a n/a n/a n/a Max. wave channels

MIDI (OPL3 FM) / /* x / x / x /* /* x /* /* /* /* / / /* /* /* /* MIDI (OPL3 FM)

MIDI wavetable x / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / MIDI wavetable

RTMIDI (MPU401) Play & Rec. / / n/a / x / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / RTMIDI (MPU401) Play & Rec.

digital Play & Rec. (S/P DIF) / / / / / / x / / / / / / / / / / / / / digital Play & Rec. (S/P DIF)

4 channel audio / / / / / / x / / / / / / / / / / / / / 4 channel audio

Win-OS2 sound support /** /** x / /** /** /** /** /** x*** x*** x*** x*** x*** x*** x /** /** /** /** Win-OS2 sound support

DOS sound support / / / / / / / / / n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a / / / / / DOS sound support

APM Support / n/a x / / n/a x n/a n/a x / / / / / / n/a n/a / / APM Support

Full duplex x x n/a / x x x / / x x x x x n/a / / / / / Full duplex

Odin-compatible (e.g. Win32 RealPlayer 8) x x x x x x x n/a n/a / / / / / / n/a n/a x x Odin-compatible (e.g. Win32 RealPlayer 8)

VPC-compatible / x / x x x x / / / / / / / * / / / x x VPC-compatible

Included Software Included Software

Joystick driver / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Joystick driver

Mixer x / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Mixer

Mixer standard Mixer standard

IOCTL90 / x x x x x x / / / / / / / / / / / x x IOCTL90

IBM mixer x / / / / / / x x x x x x x x / x x / x IBM mixer

System requirements according to manufacturer Warp 3 red-spine and higher OS/2 Warp 4.0 and eComStation Warp 3 blue-spine and higher Warp 4.0 and eComStation Warp 4.0 and eComStation Warp 4.0 and eComStation Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 3 red-spine and higher Warp 4.0 and eComStation Warp 3 red-spine and higher / / Warp 4.0 and eComStation Warp 4.0 and eComStation System requirements according to manufacturer

System requirements (unsupported by manufacturer) / n/a Warp 3 red-spine (without Win-OS/2) and higher n/a Warp 3 FP 40 n/a / / / / / / / / n/a / / / Warp 3 red-spine and higher n/a System requirements (unsupported by manufacturer)

Driver developer Aureal IBM/Innotek or ALSA 2 Crystal ALSA 2 driver project Sander van Leeuwen IBM/Innotek or ALSA 2 Rüdiger Ihle IBM IBM ESS ESS ESS ESS ESS ALSA 2 Project ESS IBM IBM IBM/Innotek ALSA ALSA 2 Project Driver developer

Homepage driver manufacturer / http://www.innotek.de/; http://os2.kiev.ua/en/uniaud.php http://www.cirrus.com/ http://os2.kiev.ua/en/uniaud.php / http://www.innotek.de/; http://os2.kiev.ua/en/uniaud.php / / / http://www.esstech.com/ http://www.esstech.com/ http://www.esstech.com/ http://www.esstech.com/ http://www.esstech.com/ http://os2.kiev.ua/en/uniaud.cards.php http://www.esstech.com/ / http://www.innotek.de/ http://os2.kiev.ua/en/uniaud.cards.php Homepage driver manufacturer

Filename OS2-a3d.zip uniaud.exe uniaudio_104b_binaries.zip PI0306.zip, aftpitos.exe, cwos2311.zip see ALSA 2 driver sblive080.zip uniaud.exe uniaudio_104b_binaries.zip CMedia019.zip ensoniq.exe ct5880.exe 1938_OS2_117.zip M2OS2-10.ZIP M2OS2-10.ZIP m2eos210.zip 198x_OS2_v200E2.ZIP see ALSA 2 driver d81t06a.zip pciymf.exe pciymf.exe + Daniela Engert's patch patchymf.zip uniaud.exe uniaudio_104b_binaries.zip uniaud2003xxxx.zip Filename

Sources Sources

Homepage driver manufacturer x x x x x x x x x Homepage driver manufacturer

IBM Device Driver Pak On-Line Software Choice Software Choice x Software Choice x x Software Choice IBM Device Driver Pak On-Line

Hobbes x x x x x x x x x x x Hobbes

others www.commtalk.de ->File Library IBM Device Driver Matrix for ThinkPad T20-T22 IBM Device Driver Matrix for IBM IntelliStation (Mod.6565-E1G, P3) IBM Device DriverMatrix for IBM IntelliStation PC300PL (Type 6565, 6566) Developer home page others

Availability Availability

Freeware x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Freeware

eCS/IBM Software Choice customers only x x x x x x x x eCS/IBM Software Choice customers only

Installer/Deinstall x x / x x x x x x n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a x x x x Installer/Deinstall

Comment Chipset manufacturer has been taken over This sound chip is supported by the IBM/Innotek ALSA driver (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) The latest driver version, which is strongly recommended, is only available from the IBM Thinkpad 21-22 Device Driver Matrix Homepage and at the Hobbes software archive. This sound chip is not officially supported by the IBM/Innotek ALSA driver yet, but is reported to work without problems. http://www.cmedia.com.tw/ no recording via microphone ESS Maestro 2 drivers cannot be guaranteed to work with an ESS Maestro 1 chipset. - Feedback required! very bad driver very bad driver, ESS ES 1968 driver and Daniela Engert's ESS Maestro 2e patch required driver for all ESS 198x chipsets, download: ftp://64.152.86.249/pub/audio/pci/allegro-1/ in contrary to information on IBM driver site (or in Hobbes archive) this is a driver for Win-OS/2 only older driver version maybe at Hobbes; driver was free up to version 1.01 older driver version maybe at Hobbes; driver was free up to version 1.01 supported AC 97 codecs can be found in the AC 97 driver table and the driver readme file as well Supported AC 97 codecs are listed in the AC 97 driver table and the driver readme file as well. The driver is based on the ALSA driver by IBM/Innotek! Comment

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Abbreviations

x: yes/supported/available
/: no/not supported/not available
n/a: no information available
*: Software-MIDI possible using TiMidity
**: output of system sound possible via generic Win-OS/2 driver
***: possible if ESS Win-OS/2 sound drivers installed (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/)
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