[Alsa-user] OPL3SA2 updates?

[Andrew H. <ah...@gm...>]

Hello. I wrote the following email to the list several weeks ago:
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I have an older laptop with the ever-troublesome Yamaha OPL3SA2 chip.
I"ve recently been trying to get it to work with the latest versions
of ALSA and, as usual, it is extremely problematic. The only time I
ever got ALSA to work on it (not recently), there was a bug where the
mixer would have to be "touched" before you could hear anything (start
playing, knock mixer volume up or down one notch, and then you"d hear
sound from the speakers). Versions 1.0.8 and 1.0.9rc3 are unable to
configure the card even when I let alsaconf try all combinations of
options.
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I"d like to help to get this to work if I can. While I"m not a coder
at all, I can apply patches, compile the driver and then report issues
when they crop up. I tried to compile ALSA from CVS today with no
luck.
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Are there any developers that would be interested at all in trying to
get the driver for this chip fixed once and for all?
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Have there been any more developments in getting the OPL3SA2 chip
working on Linux 2.6 with ALSA? Is it possible that it will ever work?
Is it possible that it will ever work with a simple modprobe and no
long options? Windows XP detected the chip just fine.

I would be willing to help developers in any way that I can in order
to get this working. It's not so much that I'm doing anything
mission-critical as it is that I think that by now, it should Just
Work. I've even considered giving someone a shell account or shipping
my laptop to someone if they were trustworthy enough and were sure
they could get something developed.

Thanks.
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Andy