Author Topic: Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM  (Read 5434 times)

Martin Iturbide

  • OS2World NewsMaster
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4710
  • Karma: +41/-1
  • Your Friend Wil Declares...
    • View Profile
    • Martin's Personal Blog
Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM
« on: February 28, 2021, 04:38:27 am »
Hi

I have a Warp 4 VM (Virtualbox) with the SoundBlaster driver and I had changed it to Uniaud with Intel HD.
Now it produce sounds, but I think it has two audio adapters registered. I had selected Uniaud as the default device, system audio produces sound, but does not work when I double click wav files.

Do I have to remove the old SoundBlaster entry from somewhere (INI files?) ?

Regards
Martin Iturbide
OS2World NewsMaster
... just share the dream.

David McKenna

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 742
  • Karma: +24/-0
    • View Profile
Re: Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2021, 05:42:59 pm »
 Hi Martin,

 The Multimedia Setup facility for choosing default devices in Warp 4 has never worked correctly for me. Lars' USB audio drivers add a new page to the 'System' tab that allows choosing the default device that does work. You could try adding the USB audio drivers and use that to choose the default.

 If you want to remove the SoundBlaster, you can also edit the MMPM2.INI file by removing entries for the SoundBlaster, but it can be tricky. Once edited, you have to <ctrl><alt><del> to reboot (NOT a regular reboot or shutdown) to make changes stick. Be aware that improper editing of MMPM2.INI could prevent the computer from booting, so be sure to have a copy of the original MMPM2.INI file in case it goes wrong...

Regards,
« Last Edit: February 28, 2021, 05:59:15 pm by David McKenna »

Andreas Schnellbacher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 827
  • Karma: +14/-0
    • View Profile
Re: Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2021, 06:06:15 pm »
Or first remove it by selecting 0 and then reinstall the new driver.

David McKenna

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 742
  • Karma: +24/-0
    • View Profile
Re: Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2021, 07:02:21 pm »
Or first remove it by selecting 0 and then reinstall the new driver.

 Hi Andreas,

  For some reason that has never worked for me, but it may be related to the driver install itself not being set up for it properly? One thing I just noticed is that UniAud and the USB audio drivers all have an 'uninstal.exe' program in their respective folders under 'C:\MMOS2\INSTALL\...'. Martin could check and see if there is a folder there for the SoundBlaster and does it have an 'uninstal.exe'?

Regards,

Lars

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1271
  • Karma: +65/-0
    • View Profile
Re: Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2021, 11:06:08 pm »
David, you are right,
selecting zero devices does not properly clean up MMPM2.INI. It needs manual rework.
But it's easier for me to do the actual cleanup than to explain how to do it.

Rich Walsh

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 331
  • Karma: +23/-0
  • ONU! (OS/2 is NOT Unix!)
    • View Profile
Re: Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2021, 02:19:29 am »
Martin, if you have any of the recent AOS betas you can use 'mmi.exe', my nearly-complete Multimedia Installer (no help yet). It will install/remove any MM package copied to your system or included on the AOS DVD, and will clean up 'mmpm2.ini' when done.

On an installed system, it's in '\MMOS2'. To get at it from an ISO, mount the image, then navigate to:
  x:\CID\SERVER\MMOS2\BASE\MMI.EXE
and run it from there.

Note: MMI is perfectly happy to uninstall drivers that aren't installed - it won't complain when it doesn't find any files. You can use this to trigger an 'mmpm2.ini' cleanup without making any other changes to MMOS/2.

Martin Iturbide

  • OS2World NewsMaster
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4710
  • Karma: +41/-1
  • Your Friend Wil Declares...
    • View Profile
    • Martin's Personal Blog
Re: Remove Audio Adapter - Warp 4 - VM
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2021, 09:09:31 pm »
Thanks for the suggestions. I will try the options and report back.

Regards
Martin Iturbide
OS2World NewsMaster
... just share the dream.