Win98 and sound

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francescobat
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Win98 and sound

Post by francescobat »

Hello !
I am new and my name is Francesco.
I have installed virtualbox on Ubuntu 8.04 and i made a Win98 virtual machine.
The question is i abled sound and i tried driver "null", "oss", "alsa" and "pulse", but it doesn't sound and when win98 start it want to do to install a driver PCI Multimedia Audio Device.
What i must to do ?
Bye
Francesco bat
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Post by Sasquatch »

Please read the manual, chapter 3.7.4. Also see the changelog of 1.6.0 and 1.6.2. It says that they added the Soundblaster 16 option for audio card emulation. This is done for older Guests that do not have support or drivers for the AC'97 card.
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