Zitat von ruthan im Beitrag #105

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Old ATI PCI which reporting segfault with Pericom do same thing on ASMedia native slot, so these cards are so far dead for passthrough.. i dunno if just feature or KVM Qemu bug..

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So far i never saw Kernel modules: just blank even for cards which worked, there is always vfio-pci . Im trying to blacklist them through this file:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
and there text:
blacklist modulename

For these old ATIs im using:
blacklist atyfb // Im searching modules through lspci -vv

I hope that this is right. But i found other strange thing, im using this tuporial for download card rom to disk:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthr...f.29_compatible
And with this one im getting some I/O errror, but course it could some tool bug.

But this could be interesting for iGPU thing too, i still see that there is listed: snd_hda_intel without Kernel modules in use.. so its sort of blank. Should passthrough it with iGPU, i would expect that some HDMI audio device would be part of iGPU, but hda is strange to be, but i some tutorials is recommended to black it too, so my iGPU part of blacklist is this:
blacklist snd_hda_intel
blacklist snd_hda_codec_hdmi
blacklist i915
Its not idea, because i would lost realtek hda which i want to use (but for making iGPU working i did my best).. but find out then i blacklist snd_hda_codec_hdmi that audio device is already gone, as far as i can believe - Sound preferences dialog. I dunno how to check audio devices in terminal.

Im still struggling with make Creative cards working.. when install Live / Audigy drivers, i everytime getting during boot this message:
Invalid path, not directory.

I never saw something like this, i still can boot in Safe mode but not to normal mode, how to recover from this?
Is someone some SB Live driver without install just *.inf files and other files?

I finally made SB Live! working.. I found some not setup.exe drivers, just info files and archive (attached), sound is clean as native.

So we now have really everything what you would need working - Videocard card passthrough, Soundcard passthrough, virtual networking.

Now we can test more cards etc.. i will test some Dos friendly cards (SB live already has some EMS only Dos support) like Yamhas 7x4 and Vortexes, to real DOS/Win98 dual boot heaven, but even without it already great.

I tested nGlide install inside Geforce 6 machine machine with pasthrough and Diablo II, so also 3Dfx - GLide is working within Win98..

Zitat von ruthan im Beitrag #107

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But this could be interesting for iGPU thing too, i still see that there is listed: snd_hda_intel without Kernel modules in use.. so its sort of blank. Should passthrough it with iGPU, i would expect that some HDMI audio device would be part of iGPU, but hda is strange to be, but i some tutorials is recommended to black it too, so my iGPU part of blacklist is this:
blacklist snd_hda_intel
blacklist snd_hda_codec_hdmi
blacklist i915
Its not idea, because i would lost realtek hda which i want to use (but for making iGPU working i did my best).. but find out then i blacklist snd_hda_codec_hdmi that audio device is already gone, as far as i can believe - Sound preferences dialog. I dunno how to check audio devices in terminal.

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Yamaha 724 PCI soundcard is working fine for Windows native application, there is some Legacy device, so far no sound in Windows 98 dos windows, i will try it in native Dos later.

@ruthan

did you try the drivers on the vogons archive?

http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1470&menustate=0

No i find just some generic 724 driver on disk.. it reports version 4.06.1033.

I got hint to use for virtualized graphics - im using it for sound card testing, more user friendly because i can do it remotetly to use instead emulated cirrus videocards, std + universal VESA 2 driver - its working even on real very new videocards. I tested it with Diablo which was with cirrus and its significatly faster at least on Linux with KVM, Windows virtual has not KVM.. it has HAXM accelerator possiblity but.. but minimally at least 1+other user getting crashes when we reach Win98 desktop.. but whpx (Hyper-V) is proven to wrong.. at least with some Qemu build, but im not using it because of Vmware conflicts.

VBEX9 Russian Bear download:
https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbe9x.htm

@ruthan

the vogons pack has a newer version - 4.12.01.2019

from what I've read on vogons forums, the VxD driver is better than the WDM driver.

I tried to Yamaha i real Dos, but i wasnt able to produce anything else than test 16bit sound, it worked even on MB, where anything else in DOS with any card not worked, so who knows.. there is problem that its EMS card and with my 90 KB of Dos ultimate config files and so far unknown Qemu memory map i could get quite mess.. so i postponed it.

I tried Aureal Vortex 1 - 8820 - driver 1189, its working fine in Win98 nicely, it also has some SB pro DOS fallback and i was able to produce with it FX sounds - in Warcraft 2 setup, Doom II and Blood, but not FM for some reason.. So Qemu has at least some internal wiring to make Dos sound working on pass through card. Wacraft 2 dont started, but would be suprised if it would be bug of Cirrus dos modes implemetation of some Qemu bug, because i wasnt able to turn on Quake 640x480 in dos, i tried lots of things, VBE 2.0 extension, other Qemu video cards.. Warcraft 2 is 640x480 games, that 640x480 working with Windows drivers, doesnt really mean much for it.
BTW Qemu videocard speed is funny thing, Doom 2 is slow with its integrated graphics, but Blood is running greatly.

I will try Vortex native Dos sound later, it has advantage that could be loaded in any mode and from command line and if my memory serves even unloaded.

I also discovered that VBE9x is no so great, it is nice for Windows, but when you try to run Dos apps, it get stuck, if im not work its same with real machines.

I have tried Vortex V1 in real Dos, im quite sure that it was set right, but got nothing any game, so probably there is not right i440 DMA sound support, implemented in Quake, so until someone fix it, we have to use for Dos emulated SB16 or play in Windows 98 Dos box with FM. For example there are games like Quake 1 which hasnt have FM music, but cd music here you could get full experience.

Ok some new info to VBE9x, Dos mode is not working in Windows, mode by should work in fullscreen mode:
kjliew: VBEMP9X driver does not support windowed mode in Windows DOS box. I believe this is documented. You need to create a shortcut to force fullscreen, or run the game from a fullscren DOS box instead of clicking the GAME exe directly.

I have tried Yamaha 724 with physical MB.. and same driver as with Qemu and Windows Dos windows and sound worked - in Warcraft II demo and Doom2, fine for some reason Blood wasnt able to detect card at all, but its not now important.
Im not saying that some new drivers cant work better, but i doubt that they would fix Qemu i440fx configuration.. because i already tried it with modern VIA board, there is still chance but not big one, i also wanted to be sure that card is ok..

@ruthan

Zitat von ruthan im Beitrag #19

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Otherwise back to Win98 disscussion is there some good GUI tool to change driver letters? When you have multiboot machine, it could be mess, because of that, im usually doing lots of partitioning port.. to make it happen right - i love to have D letter ask data and C for system regardless of other systems.

In XP+ systems is lots of tools for that, even when This computer manager-disc tools are not working for some operation, im using a lot Paragon and Minitool tools for it.

I know that there was some autoexec driver letter tool, but maybe exist something better. I saw something like that in Partion Magic, but it was too clever, it tried actually change all system and registry patches just with drive letter change - that is not what i like.

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