I’ve recently installed OS/2 Warp version 3 on a new system equiped with an
Acer Magic S22 sound card. It appears to use Opti’s 924 chipset.
Acer provided support for OS/2 in the form of a driver available at their
Acer Open compoenet web site.
I installed the drivers and after some experimentation it appeared to work
properly.
However, after editing OS/2′s config.sys file I noticed that the system
failed to properly boot the soundcard’s drivers. I tried de-installing and
re-installing the soundcard’s drivers and the install reported a msg.
stating that the no Opti chip was detected, and although it proceded to
install support files for the card subsequent reboots failed to load the
card.
I did not edit any lines in config.sys related to the soundcard. So I
don’t know how it was possible to effect changes to it under OS/2.
The card works fine under alternate partitions running PC DOS 7.0 and MS
Windows ’95.
I tried Opti’s own drivers for 924-chip-based cards and these appear to be
identical to Acer’s own drivers.
If anyone has this type of soundcard running successfully under Warp 3
please let me know what was involved and if you have encountered any
problems.
If anyone is running Warp 4, and perhaps has experience using this type of
Acer card, I would like to know if version 4 provides greater hardware
support and if it any built-in support for this card. Knowing this would
help me determine if I should consider what would for me right now a costly
upgrade to Warp 4.
Thanks for any help.