From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-ac12-smp i686) Description of problem: The opl3sa2 driver included with recent kernels is partially broken. It plays sounds just fine, but I cannot record from the line-in (where I have a radio card connected). I recently upgraded to RedHat 7.1, before this I was using an updated 6.2 system with a 2.4 kernel. Even before updating to 7.1 I noticed that the opl3sa2 driver was heavily modified somewhere around 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 which broke the recording from the input line. I am pretty sure it is the driver since I booted back into an older kernel that I still have and it works fine. One odd thing, after booting into 2.4.2, a simple reboot into the older working kernel does not work, I have to completely power down the computer so I assume that the driver is messing with the ISA-PnP settings on the card that get reset when I power it off. Another minor problem is that the interface to the master volume control must have changed in the new driver because it is not controlable with aumix or the gnome mixer applet anymore. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I just boot into the 2.4.2-2smp kernel and try to record from the line in like so: # Set the recording to the input line: aumix -l R # Create a 60 sec wav file reading directly from the sound device: ecasound -f:16,2,44100 -t:60 -i:/dev/dsp -o:out.wav # Or use esd to read (both fail): esdrec | ecasound -b:64 -f:16,2,44100 -t:60 -i:stdin -o:out.wav Additional info: Before updating to 7.1, I tried the new opl3sa2 driver in the post 2.4.1 kernels and would see this message in my log when I tried to record: kernel: Sound: DMA (input) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? I don't see that with your 2.4.2-2 kernel though. Just let me know if you need any more info.
Has there been any progress on this or any other confirmation? I haven't tried building any new kernels yet, but I have noticed that the linux/drivers/sound/opl3sa2.c driver in the official Linus kernels has not changed since around 2.4.2 when this broke on me. Is there a sound maintainer that I should contact about possibly fixing this? ~Jason
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/