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At 11:22 AM 6/8/95 +0200, Martin Patterson - Sun Microsystems wrote: > >There have been lots of questions about getting 755c audio working in different >environments, here's one more. > >I would like to know if anyone has got the 755c audio device working under >Windows 95 (beta)...? Or NT 3.51? > well, i am running windows 95 on a 755CE.... here is the poop: *Windows 95*: no problem, audio works perfectly (both MIDI and WAV, and SB in DOS). I do not know for certain about a 755c, but I strongly suspect that it will work fine as well. why? because windows 95 tries to use the spiffy new 32-bit Windows 95 drivers for all devices. however, if a 32-bit driver does not exist for a device, windows 95 can use the old windows 3.1 16-bit driver. on my thinkpad 755CE running windows 95, i am using native 32-bit drivers for disk drive, pcmcia controller (no more ibm ezplay required, no more zillions of dos tsrs for pcmcia plug'n'play: it is all built into win 95), 3com pcmcia ethernet card, and the western digital video chipset in the thinkpad. for audio, i am using the old win 3.1 driver from ibm (oh, and yes, all other mwave stuff continues to work fine). windows 95 even _autodetected_ my ibm port replicator, and setup 2 configurations automatically (docked and undocked). oh, and the win95 pcmcia support also handles the extra slots in the port replicator just fine. using the 32-bit video driver with the western digital video is very nice; you can switch screen resolutions "on the fly" without exiting windows. with the pcmcia drivers, novell drivers (built in to win95), winsock tcp/ip (also built in), audio, etc, my ms-dos windows in win95 still have 608K available! before win95, my config.sys was about 70 lines long (multiple configurations, pcmcia/cdrom/novell drivers, etc); now, it is 3 lines long and everything works better. note i am using build 480 (significantly newer than the "official last beta" release). i was very, very skeptical about win95; but so far, it has far exceeded my expectations in practically every aspect. for the easiest install on a thinkpad, BACKUP YOUR ENTIRE HARD DISK!!!, and then install Win95 _on top of_ your win3.1 installation (i.e. install into c:\windows). this is more of a pain if things do not work out, but it makes the install easier because win95 can then automatically grab any 16bit drivers it needs (like for audio) on the fly by analyzing your \windows\system.ini, etc. I am not going to involve myself in an OS flame war; i think it is impossible to say if Win95 is better/worse than OS/2 Warp. However, i say with 100% confidence that Win95 is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better than win3.1 !!!! (damn well should be after 4+ years!!!) *Windows NT*: i investigated this recently, and there are no audio drivers available for NT on a Thinkpad. Even worse, there are no video drivers either: you are stuck with standard VGA, i.e. 640x480 at 16 colors. and NT 3.51 pcmcia support is rather barebones. Win NT (unlike win95) _cannot_ utilize win3.1 drivers. does anybody know if Win95 32-bit drivers are compatible with Win NT drivers? can i take the win95 32-bit video driver and use it in NT? (i personally doubt it) --------- Todd Tannenbaum CAE Model Advanced Facility email: tannenba@engr.wisc.edu ph: 608-262-3118