OSMMSSBD - CANNOT CHANGE SOUND SCHEMES WHEN MULTIMEDIA NOT INSTALLED ON 
STARTUP DRIVE
09/26/96
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Cannot Change Sound Schemes When Multimedia Not Installed on Startup Drive
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DESCRIPTION

During installation, Multimedia files may be installed on a different 
drive (not on the startup drive). After this is done, however, the 
sound schemes cannot be changed from the default Desktop sounds. If the 
sound scheme is changed, no system sounds will be heard during any 
system event (during opening or closing a folder, for example).  If the 
Desktop sound scheme is reselected, the system event sounds are heard 
again.

This problem occurs because the system INI file is not updated to point 
to the non-default schemes on the different (non-startup) drive.

RESOLUTION

There are two workarounds for this problem:

1. Modify the INISYS.RC file and remake the INI files.

   Caution: This workaround may cause the loss of some system 
           customization.

   a. From an OS/2 command prompt, type CD C:\OS2, then press Enter.
      (Where C: is the drive that OS/2 is installed on).

      Type COPY INISYS.RC INISYS.BAK, then press Enter.

      (This is very important, it backs up the INISYS.RC file)

   b. Type E INISYS.RC, then press Enter.
               
   c. Find the lines beginning with "PM_SOUNDS_..."
      There are four sections, each with 13 lines:

       PM_SOUNDS_DESKTOP
       PM_SOUNDS_GARDEN
       PM_SOUNDS_OCEAN
       PM_SOUNDS_SPACE

   d. Change the path to the sound files on each of these lines to 
      contain the drive letter on which Multimedia was installed.

   e. Save the INISYS.RC file, shutdown and restart the system.

   f. When the OS/2 appears in the top left corner of the screen, 
      press Alt-F1 to bring up the Recovery Choices screen.
      Then choose F2 to get a command prompt.

   g. From the prompt, type CD \OS2, then press Enter.

   h. Type COPY OS2SYS.INI OS2SYS.BAK, then press Enter, to make an 
      unchanged backup of the file.

   i. Type MAKEINI OS2SYS.INI INISYS.RC, then press Enter.  

   j. Once completed, restart the system.

   k. Open the Sound folder (in the Multimedia folder) 
      and select the desired scheme. Then press the APPLY button.

   All the sound schemes should now be available.

2. Manually link the sounds from the schemes to the system events:

   a. Open the Sound folder (in the Multimedia folder).  

   b. For each event shown on the left of the Sound notebook, 
      choose the corresponding sound from the list at the right.
      (The scheme sounds will be listed under the subdirectory 
      with the name of the scheme)

      Note: This procedure is very time consuming!




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