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Documentation for the OPL3-SA2, SA3, and SAx driver (opl3sa2.o)
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Scott Murray, scott@spiteful.org
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January 7, 2001
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NOTE: All trade-marked terms mentioned below are properties of their
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respective owners.
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Supported Devices
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This driver is for PnP soundcards based on the following Yamaha audio
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controller chipsets:
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YMF711 aka OPL3-SA2
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YMF715 and YMF719 aka OPL3-SA3
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Up until recently (December 2000), I'd thought the 719 to be a
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different chipset, the OPL3-SAx. After an email exhange with
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Yamaha, however, it turns out that the 719 is just a re-badged
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715, and the chipsets are identical. The chipset detection code
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has been updated to reflect this.
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Anyways, all of these chipsets implement the following devices:
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OPL3 FM synthesizer
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Soundblaster Pro
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Microsoft/Windows Sound System
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MPU401 MIDI interface
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Note that this driver uses the MSS device, and to my knowledge these
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chipsets enforce an either/or situation with the Soundblaster Pro
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device and the MSS device. Since the MSS device has better
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capabilities, I have implemented the driver to use it.
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Mixer Channels
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Older versions of this driver (pre-December 2000) had two mixers,
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an OPL3-SA2 or SA3 mixer and a MSS mixer. The OPL3-SA[23] mixer
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device contained a superset of mixer channels consisting of its own
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channels and all of the MSS mixer channels. To simplify the driver
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considerably, and to partition functionality better, the OPL3-SA[23]
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mixer device now contains has its own specific mixer channels. They
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are:
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Volume - Hardware master volume control
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Bass - SA3 only, now supports left and right channels
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Treble - SA3 only, now supports left and right channels
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Microphone - Hardware microphone input volume control
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Digital1 - Yamaha 3D enhancement "Wide" mixer
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All other mixer channels (e.g. "PCM", "CD", etc.) now have to be
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controlled via the "MS Sound System (CS4231)" mixer. To facilitate
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this, the mixer device creation order has been switched so that
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the MSS mixer is created first. This allows accessing the majority
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of the useful mixer channels even via single mixer-aware tools
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such as "aumix".
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Plug 'n Play
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In previous kernels (2.2.x), some configuration was required to
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get the driver to talk to the card. Being the new millennium and
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all, the 2.4.x kernels now support auto-configuration if ISA PnP
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support is configured in. Theoretically, the driver even supports
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having more than one card in this case.
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With the addition of PnP support to the driver, two new parameters
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have been added to control it:
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isapnp - set to 0 to disable ISA PnP card detection
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multiple - set to 0 to disable multiple PnP card detection
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Optional Parameters
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Recent (December 2000) additions to the driver (based on a patch
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provided by Peter Englmaier) are two new parameters:
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ymode - Set Yamaha 3D enhancement mode:
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0 = Desktop/Normal 5-12 cm speakers
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1 = Notebook PC (1) 3 cm speakers
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2 = Notebook PC (2) 1.5 cm speakers
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3 = Hi-Fi 16-38 cm speakers
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loopback - Set A/D input source. Useful for echo cancellation:
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0 = Mic Right channel (default)
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1 = Mono output loopback
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The ymode parameter has been tested and does work. The loopback
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parameter, however, is untested. Any feedback on its usefulness
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would be appreciated.
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Manual Configuration
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If for some reason you decide not to compile ISA PnP support into
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your kernel, or disabled the driver's usage of it by setting the
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isapnp parameter as discussed above, then you will need to do some
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manual configuration. There are two ways of doing this. The most
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common is to use the isapnptools package to initialize the card, and
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use the kernel module form of the sound subsystem and sound drivers.
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Alternatively, some BIOS's allow manual configuration of installed
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PnP devices in a BIOS menu, which should allow using the non-modular
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sound drivers, i.e. built into the kernel.
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I personally use isapnp and modules, and do not have access to a PnP
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BIOS machine to test. If you have such a beast, configuring the
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driver to be built into the kernel should just work (thanks to work
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done by David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au>). You will still need
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to specify settings, which can be done by adding:
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opl3sa2=<io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mssio>,<mpuio>
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to the kernel command line. For example:
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opl3sa2=0x370,5,0,1,0x530,0x330
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If you are instead using the isapnp tools (as most people have been
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before Linux 2.4.x), follow the directions in their documentation to
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produce a configuration file. Here is the relevant excerpt I used to
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use for my SA3 card from my isapnp.conf:
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(CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1 (LD 0
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# NOTE: IO 0 is for the unused SoundBlaster part of the chipset.
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(IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
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(IO 1 (BASE 0x0530))
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(IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
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(IO 3 (BASE 0x0330))
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(IO 4 (BASE 0x0370))
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(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
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(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
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(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 1))
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Here, note that:
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Port Acceptable Range Purpose
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---- ---------------- -------
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IO 0 0x0220 - 0x0280 SB base address, unused.
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IO 1 0x0530 - 0x0F48 MSS base address
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IO 2 0x0388 - 0x03F8 OPL3 base address
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IO 3 0x0300 - 0x0334 MPU base address
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IO 4 0x0100 - 0x0FFE card's own base address for its control I/O ports
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The IRQ and DMA values can be any that are considered acceptable for a
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MSS. Assuming you've got isapnp all happy, then you should be able to
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do something like the following (which matches up with the isapnp
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configuration above):
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modprobe mpu401
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modprobe ad1848
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modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=0 dma2=1
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modprobe opl3 io=0x388
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See the section "Automatic Module Loading" below for how to set up
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/etc/modprobe.conf to automate this.
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An important thing to remember that the opl3sa2 module's io argument is
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for it's own control port, which handles the card's master mixer for
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volume (on all cards), and bass and treble (on SA3 cards).
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Troubleshooting
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If all goes well and you see no error messages, you should be able to
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start using the sound capabilities of your system. If you get an
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error message while trying to insert the opl3sa2 module, then make
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sure that the values of the various arguments match what you specified
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in your isapnp configuration file, and that there is no conflict with
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another device for an I/O port or interrupt. Checking the contents of
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/proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts can be useful to see if you're
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butting heads with another device.
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If you still cannot get the module to load, look at the contents of
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your system log file, usually /var/log/messages. If you see the
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message "opl3sa2: Unknown Yamaha audio controller version", then you
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have a different chipset version than I've encountered so far. Look
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for all messages in the log file that start with "opl3sa2: " and see
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if they provide any clues. If you do not see the chipset version
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message, and none of the other messages present in the system log are
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helpful, email me some details and I'll try my best to help.
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Automatic Module Loading
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Lastly, if you're using modules and want to set up automatic module
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loading with kmod, the kernel module loader, here is the section I
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currently use in my modprobe.conf file:
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# Sound
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alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2
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options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=7 dma=0 dma2=3
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options opl3 io=0x388
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That's all it currently takes to get an OPL3-SA3 card working on my
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system. Once again, if you have any other problems, email me at the
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address listed above.
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Scott
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