Subject: Re: Yamaha sound card
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/31/1997 16:25:05
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Michael C. Richardson wrote:

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>   I wound up with a:
> 
> isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: read port 0x203
> isapnp0: <OPL3-SA2 Sound Board, YMH0021, , > port 0x220/16,0x530/8,0x388/8,0x330
> /2,0x370/2 irq 5 drq 0,1 not configured
> joy0 at isapnp0 port 0x201/1
> joy0: OPL3-SA2 Sound Board 
> joy0: joystick not connected
> 
>   card in a system. The box claimed:
> 
> compatibility:
> "Pnp under Win95, Sound Blaster, SB PRO, MPC3, Window Sound System,
> Win 3.1, DOS 5.0 or higher, General MIDI"
> 
>   This one came with wave table support (the one without was out of
> stock).
> 
>   I find it strange that it has no ipa->ipa_devcompat string.
>   I've added this to sb_isapnp_match, and I'll test it in a moment
> with XFree86-3.3 is finished downloading.

I'm going through this now w/ a sound card I've got.

I think the reason there's no compatability string is that it can be
either a WSS card or a SB card. So you'll need a chip-dep part to tell it
to be one or the other.

Take care,

Bill