soundblaster, anyone?
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:00 am
i decided early on that i would refrain from asking for help with my code and i would research and find the answers online, but i really cannot figure out what's wrong with what should be a simple soundblaster detecting function. my problem is that i can only get the initialization and the mixer settings working, and i thought that maybe the problem with direct sound mode lay in qemu. so, i tried my code on my actual pc, and it wouldn't even find the soundblaster card. i know for a fact that there is a soundblaster compatible, because i just bought a soundblaster live! card which might be as close to soundblaster compatible as possible haha.
anyway, here is the initialization code. i'm almost certain that if i could fix this i could get going again.
oh, and the types and functions i use are basically..
like i said, qemu works fine with this code. it finds it at port 0x0220 i believe.. but my real soundblaster card on my real pc doesn't do anything.
if anyone can spot what i'm doing wrong, i'd be pretty happy.
thanks[/code]
anyway, here is the initialization code. i'm almost certain that if i could fix this i could get going again.
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ushort lsBases[i]={0x0210,0x220,0x0230,0x0240,0x0250,0x0260,0x0280};
#define lsBaseCount 7
ushort LSAutoDetect() {
uchar i;
ushort j;
string nBuffer[5];
for (i=0;i<lsBaseCount;i++) {
puts((strptr)"Attempting to detect SoundBlaster on port 0x");
puts(StrSToH(lsBases[i],nBuffer));
puts((strptr)"...");
outportb(lsBases[i]+SB_DSP_RESET,1);
TmrWait(1);
outportb(lsBases[i]+SB_DSP_RESET,0);
//TmrWaitS(0.1);
if (inportb(lsBases[i]+SB_DSP_READSTAT)&0x80) {
for (j=0;j<0xFFFF;j++) {
if (inportb(lsBases[i]+SB_DSP_READ)==0xAA) {
puts((strptr)"Passed!\n");
return lsBases[i];
}
}
}
puts((strptr)"Failed.\n");
}
puts((strptr)"No SoundBlaster present! :[\n");
return 0;
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typedef unsigned short ushort;
typedef unsigned char *strptr;
TmrWaitS waits a specified number of seconds, TmrWait waits a certain number of ticks, which is currently 11025 just to test out direct mode to see if it's working (which it's not) (and i made sure 1/11025 was more than 3 microseconds like i'm supposedly supposed to wait)if anyone can spot what i'm doing wrong, i'd be pretty happy.
thanks[/code]