Drew Parsons writes:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:56:33AM -0700, Joel Dudley wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I have 2.2.17/sid running pretty well on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300
> > laptop minus sound and modem support (yamaha pci sound, lucent winmodem).
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> I'm now having problems with sound on 2.4.2 too. 2.4.1 worked fine, same as
> all preceding versions. I have a 490CDT, thats a Yamaha YMF719 chip
> (OPL-SA3), is that what you have?
>
> The kernel documentation seems to provide the clue as to what happened. The
> author of the kernel driver (oplsa2.o) had thought YMF719 was different to
> YMF715, but says he recently (Dec 2000) found out they're much the same. So
> he's adjusted the code accordingly.
>
> I haven't yet figured out what to do about it. midi works for me
> (/dev/synth), but mp3s (/dev/dsp) do not. When the kernel loads up, it
> doesn't find the sound system as a PNP subsystem (I'm not sure if it's
> supposed to). If I turn off isapnp using the new driver option, then it
> says:
>
> Mar 9 23:33:23 localhost kernel: opl3sa2: Control I/O port 0x0 not free
> Mar 9 23:33:23 localhost insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.o: init_module: No such
> device
> Mar 9 23:33:23 localhost insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
There's a bug in the code. I patched mine and made it work right (I
have a 490XCDT, same chip). Change line 917 of opl3sa2.c to read:
if (!isapno) {
and it should work again. I think this is fixed in the 2.4.3 pre
series but haven't verified it yet. I sent a patch to the maintainer.
jim
