Re: [Alsa-user] OPL3SA2 updates?

[Jaroslav K. <pe...@su...>]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Andrew Haninger wrote:

> 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.
>  
> 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.
>  
> Are there any developers that would be interested at all in trying to
> get the driver for this chip fixed once and for all?
> ---
> 
> 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.

Create a bug report and try to specify exactly the point (kernel version, 
ALSA version) where the card worked.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <pe...@su...>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs