Ultrasound Daily Digest     Mon, 18 Jan 93       Volume 2 : Issue  15 

Today's Topics:
						  Misc. GUS problems
						   Modem conflicts
						   No more static!
							Oddss and Ends
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #14
						   Upgrades and US?

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Date: 17 Jan 1993 21:21:11 -0500
From: "Bryon Daly, ECE Dept, UMass, Amherst" <DALY@ecs.umass.edu>
Message-Id: <01GTN0G1NHAQEWWGQ1@UMAECS>
Subject: Misc. GUS problems
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, I got my GUS hooked up to my stereo now (no more shitty little speakers!)
and it sounds great, especially with Starcon2.  There are one or two 
strangenesses that I hope someone can help straighten out, though...

First, I'm getting some sort of weird feedback sometimes.  Let me explain my 
setup: The gus line out goes into the AUX input on my stereo.  The SPEAKER-B
outputs from the stereo go into the line-in on the GUS (should this be mic-in
instead?)  My stereo lets me play from 2 input sources at once, so I can have 
both my CD player and the sound card playing at the same time (very convenient
for certain games with sound effects but no music).  It normally works fine,
but sometimes, I get all sorts of garbled output on the stereo.  It only 
happens if I have the stereo volume up past 5, and I have just run ultrinit.
It seems as if the GUS is taking the stereo's output and passing it back in.
SBOS immediately stops the problem, as does running playfile -r (no other 
parameters).  Anyway, I can probably stop the problem just by putting
playfile -r in my autoexec, but I'd rather not look at its error message
every time I start up.  So can people tell me any other ways to stop the 
problem?  Also, is there anything wrong with my setup as it is, that might
be unhealthy for the card?

Second, since I put the card in, my 9600bps modem has gone on the fritz
mysteriously on two or three different occasions.  One minute it dialed and
worked fine, the next minute, it would say "no dial tone" or something 
whenever I tried to dial anywhere.  Nothing I tried would work, then, 
mysteriously, it would start working again.  (And yes, there was a dial 
tone on the line the whole time).  At first I thought my modem was dying on
me, but now that I saw someone else's post relating to modem problems,
I am not so sure.  Does anybody have any ideas on the problem?

Thanks,

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 11:23:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "Adam K. Rixey" <nyarl+@cmu.edu>
Message-Id: <727287819.774.0@unix6.andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Modem conflicts
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In regards to Kevin Holly's problem with the modem - ever since the
GUS, I've noticed a conflict with my modem as well (on two machines, 
a 386-25 and my new 486DX-50 - same problem).  I'm using Telix (two
different versions, including the newest one), and Telix simply crashes
when I load up UNLESS I do one of three things:
  1)  Run SBOS
  2)  Run SBOS -f, even if I haven't loaded SBOS to begin with
  3)  Run Windows.
The problem clears away after one of these. . .you might want to try 
that.

	- AkR
	- ar2w@andrew.cmu.edu
___
Art is anything you can get away with.
	  - Marshal McLuhan

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 93 23:54:28 EST
From: ebynum@server.cs.jhu.edu
Message-Id: <9301180453.AA02491@orca.es.com>
Subject: No more static!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Listen up,

	Well, my thanks go out to Apollo Shau-Yang Wong. He hit the problem
right on the head in yesterday's digest. Seems I had memory clogged up with
device drivers. I booted from a clean floppy, using low memory to set up a
4-meg ramdrive. The static's all but gone (there is still a little when I
record a DDD compact disc, but I suppose that's to be expected with 8-bit
recording). Time to look into the 16-bit daughter card?

	For those of you who have (or will have) this problem, let me save
you some heartache. The way I see it, the GUS competes with other device
drivers when it records, so make it feel special and remove as many of the
other drivers as you possibly can. Put copies of autoexec.bat and config.sys
on a bootable floppy so you can pop it in and reboot when you want to record.

	Second, make sure the signal's not too loud (or soft). Oftentimes
the line out from a stereo receiver has no adjustable volume control, so you
have two options:

	1. Manufacture your own connector, using the speaker outputs. Then
	   you can adjust the volume manually (attribute this idea to
	   ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu; he's actually implemented it).

	2. Get a direct connection from the headphone output to the
	   microphone-in jack on the GUS. This, *in combination with*
	   the line signal (hint - use USS8) works well for me.

	Once again, thanks to all of you who helped, most of all
	to Him Who maintains this Most Holy Digest.

						Later, all

						Evan H. Bynum

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 93 15:25:44 AST
From: F. Wallace Peers <peersfw@tuns.ca>
Message-Id: <9301171927.AA25840@orca.es.com>
Subject: Oddss and Ends
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Just a few points, complaints :

(1) DUNE settings - From a few digests ago someone requested settings to
use with dune...   I found it works best with no settings using SBOS
1.22
Also ensure that you have about 600k free memory, or the game will crash
halfway through with "not enough free memory error:

(2) WHEN TELLING THE DIGEST ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL NEW PROGRAM YOU"VE
UPLOADED TO EPAS, PLEASE SAY WHAT THE FILENAME IS!  It's rather
fustrating searching through files trying to guess which one is the one
you want.  (just a pet peeve of mine  :-)  )

(3)  I'm missing digests v2n01-03 .  I searched Epas but they are not
there.  Could someone please tell me if they actually exist? Or even
send them to Epas so I can ftp them.  Thanks!

(4)  Someone mentioned that they couldn't see the pathces listed in
patch manager.  All they could get was two black boxes.  Well the
patches are really there they're just black print on a black background.
You can still highlight them if you try.   To get them to appear you
have to change your windows color scheme.

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			 PEERSFW@NEWTON.CCS.TUNS.CA       F. Wallace Peers              
		"There is no law that vulgarity and literary		    
		 excellence cannot coexist."				    
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 93 21:53:09 EST
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <9301180253.AA02253@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #14
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 9:07:49 PST
> From: aktang@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (I should be studying)
> Message-Id: <9301161707.AA22867@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU>
> Subject: Daughterboard gripe/Misc. questions...
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
> 
> Whoa!  The 16-bit recording DB will be $149?  (SRP)  That seems to
> be a lot to me, considering that the GUS itself is retailed at $199,
> and 16-bit ADC can't possibly cost that much.  What else might be on
> this DB to make the price so high?  It's almost not worth it.
> 

In an earlier press release, the 16-bit daughtercard was said to sample
at 48kHz, not just 44.1, and has compression and extensive filtering
capabilities.  Maybe that's why it's so expensive?

Phat.

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 13:16:40 -0700 (MST)
From: michael a finkel  <mfinkel@argon.GAS.uug.Arizona.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9301171340.A1058-a100000@argon>
Subject: Upgrades and US?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

What is gravis going to do for we the brave who bought the GUS before it
was popular, supported, or released with any real software or
documentation?  They are making all these wonderful changes to the
software bundles and possibly to the hardware that comes standard on the
GUS, but will they be sending us upgrade packages full of the new
software and documentation?  Or are they going to charge us to get copies
of the changes we helped bring about by buying the board before everyone
and essentially beta-testing it and the drivers/support for Gravis.

Are there others out there who have this concern?  IF so, please express
it and maybe we will be heard.

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