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Re: Win95 and MWave - fixes
On Tue, 13 Jun 1995, Geoffrey Baehr wrote:
> There's a bug in the mwave drivers, if you have > 16MB of memory, mwave
> functions won't work under Win95.
>
> Test this out be yanking your expansion memory, if things start to work,
> you've proved the fault.
fuck, I have a 16 meg card
> There's a patch available on Compuserve`s Thinkpad group which fixes this,
> it also requires that you update all of your mwave code to ver 1.10. It's
> also a good idea to update the FaxWorks to ver 3.00f too. The mwave patch
> allocates 2MB of memory for mwave DMA, the problem was a bug in the mwave
> drivers which couldn't deal with DMA/memory mgmt under '95 correctly.
*phew* ...cool ...what's the filename?
> Also, under build 347, Plug n' Play does not see the mwave correctly,
> under builds > 468 all is well, this makes no difference except that
> the device manager will list the mwave as an unknown device when probing.
>
> Expect a new BIOS (currently in Beta) for TP 755 CE/X/D in about a month
> which will fix hot dock/undock and some suspend/resume bugs and power
> bugs.
Yea...the power stuff seems unpredictable...
> Build 480 of Win95 has just about all features working except the IRDA
> drivers for the infra-red devices, a minor nit. You still need the mwave
> patch though.
thanks!!!!
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