So, a friend gave me his old, unwanted pc yesterday and guess what? There was a nice M-Audio 5.1 revolution installed inside! So, I thought to myself, what a perfect way to get clean audio on all 3 OSes of my Mac MDD (OSX, Morphos, Debian)!

You see, built in audio and SB Live! produce such low volume sound under morphos, I had hoped this one would do better. Plus, I need a cable for SBLive out and another for built-in audio out (OSX has no creative drivers), so, that card would simplify things.

So, I installed the latest OSX drivers, shut it down, unplugged the SBLive and put M-Audio in the slot, boot to OSX and voila! It works! Then, on to Debian. After a small delay during startup (to install the proper driver of the new found hardware I assume), I'm there and it works! Yay! Then on to Morphos. I boot, I copy the envyht files to AHI and audiomodes under devs: , reset, go to AHI prefs and....nothing!
The card is simply not detected under morphos. What a bummer!

I'll try the card on my peg 2 and see what happens there and I suspect it will be detected fine. Anyone has any idea what else to try on the mac for morphos to recognize the card? Do you think I might be missing something?

Thx!

The OpenPCI library the audio driver is using, is no longer supported by MorphOS and got removed as most existing hardware drivers were already included with the system or modified to use MorphOS´ PCI API..

AFAIR openpci support was removed due some design flaws, which caused problems when using the G5. However somehow we forgot about that specific audio card support and so it went incompatible.

It may help to simply use the openpci.library from some old MorphOS ISO, but no guarantees. Make sure to copy it to sys:libs to avoid future problems.

Geit



[ Edited by geit 26.06.2014 - 09:00 ]

There is nothing to regret, I tried to use my Terratec with MDD at some stage, but sound was distorted all the time, I tried everything but never could get that card to work properly with MorphOS.

@Geit

Many thx for the suggestion, I'll try that and report back! So, do you plan of making the card compatible again on a future update?

What Geist suggested works fine! Thx man! :)

My MMD sound is too low equally, but with a PCI SBLive now
it has full volume. Strange !

Well, mine sure had louder/better sound with SB Live than the builtin codec, but still not nearly as loud as it should be. In any case the Rev5.1 kills both sound cards in terms of quality and clarity so, I'm a happy camper now!

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Well, OpenPCI will not return, so there are two possible ways. MorphOS team grabs audio sources and adapts to pcix.library or the original driver developer developer is doing that for the MorphOS version.

Geit

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That would be cool, I was hoping to use an M-audio Envy24HT card in my G5, I surmise using openpci.library isn't going to solve that one then. :)

Sources are on Aminet...

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Unlikely, Davy was pretty clear that releasing the sources was all he could do to do to help "Here are the sources [...] This is all I can do" (although that was a while ago).