ref: a4f919079255f4f7edb0d3199fbe93bbf79987c6
parent: f0bef91e4a100cf2a41dc528c780ca5abdebf3f4
author: Simon Howard <[email protected]>
date: Tue Oct 4 15:24:39 EDT 2016
README.Music: add hint for CMI8738 on Windows There's apparently a way to enable OPL output for this card, as documented on vogons.org.
--- a/README.Music.md
+++ b/README.Music.md
@@ -89,8 +89,10 @@
If you desperately want hardware OPL music, you may be able to find
one of these cards for sale cheap on eBay.
-For the cards listed above with (*) next to them, OPL support is
-disabled by default and must be explictly enabled in software.
+For the cards listed above with (\*) next to them, OPL support is
+disabled by default and must be explictly enabled in software. See
+sections below for operating system-specific instructions on how you
+may be able to do this.
If your machine is not a PC, you don’t have an OPL chip, and you will
have to use the software OPL.
@@ -128,6 +130,11 @@
message in stdout.txt:
OPL_Init: Using driver 'Win32'.
+
+If you have a C-Media CMI8738, you may need to enable the `FM_EN`
+flag in Windows Device Manager to access hardware OPL output. See
+[this](http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=36445) thread on
+vogons.org for some more information.
## Linux