Description of problem:

The sound card in a Toshiba Tecra 8000 (opl3sa2 - Yamaha chip) is no longer detected automatically in Fedora 10.

I am reporting this as a bug as instructed at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-PackageNotes.html ("Any sound card not working out of the box should be reported as a bug.")


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Install Fedora 10 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000.

Actual results:

No sound cards detected.

Expected results:

Blissful music listening experience.

Additional info:

Here is my progress in getting this working manually (from http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1160972#post1160972).

I recently installed Fedora 10 on an old laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000). Everything is working nicely, except that there is no longer any sound.

I tried downloading the latest alsa-utils source from the ALSA website, and built alsaconf. This ran and detected my soundcard and wrote the following file to /etc/modprobe.d/sound:

[root@chrismob modprobe.d]# cat sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-opl3sa2
alias sound-slot-0 snd-opl3sa2
options snd-opl3sa2 fm_port=-1 midi_port=-1 port=0x370 wss_port=0x530 isapnp=0 dma1=1 dma2=0 irq=9

I tried to load this card by running

modprobe snd-opl3sa2

These modules are loaded:

[root@chrismob modprobe.d]# lsmod | grep opl
snd_opl3sa2 20244 0
snd_opl3_lib 12800 1 snd_opl3sa2
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4231_lib 24704 1 snd_opl3sa2
snd_mpu401_uart 10368 1 snd_opl3sa2
snd_seq_device 10124 5 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss ,snd_seq
snd_timer 22024 4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 50616 14 snd_opl3sa2,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4231_lib, snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_ oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer,snd_mixer_oss

But, I cannot seem to see the card using the ALSA tools

e.g.

[root@chrismob modprobe.d]# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:217: no soundcards found...

[root@chrismob modprobe.d]# alsamixer
ALSA lib pulse.c:272pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused


alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused

There is the following output in dmesg:

ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:407: mce_down - exit = 0xb
ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:407: mce_down - exit = 0xb
ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:407: mce_down - exit = 0xb
ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:407: mce_down - exit = 0xb
ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:407: mce_down - exit = 0xb
ALSA sound/isa/opl3sa2.c:242: OPL3-SA [0x370] detect = 0xff

This all used to work fine under Fedora Core 6.

Here is the link to my alsa-info.sh information:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0c...2762ee02b3a48a

This is the output when I run alsaconf, which reports that it has succeeded in an ncurses GUI that I can't copy-and-paste here:

[root@chrismob alsaconf]# bash alsaconf
Building card database..
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4232
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4231
modinfo: could not find module snd-es1688
modinfo: could not find module snd-sb8
Probing legacy cards.. This may take a few minutes..
Probing: opl3sa2grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
grep: /sys/bus/pnp/devices/??:*/resources: No such file or directory
: FOUND!!
Setting default volumes...
ALSA lib pulse.c:272pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

amixer: Mixer attach default error: Connection refused

================================================== =============================

Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!

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I have now got this working, so I thought I'd describe what I've done in case this helps others.

1) I ran

yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

2) I created a file /etc/modprobe.d/sound containing

# Sound
alias sound-slot-0 snd-opl3sa2
options snd-opl3sa2 dma1=1 dma2=0 fm_port=0x388 irq=5 isapnp=0 midi_port=0x330 port=0x538 sb_port=0x220 wss_port=0x530

(which I found at http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=323295)

3) I ran

lsmod | grep snd | xargs rmmod

4) Then

modprobe snd-opl3sa2

5) Then

[root ~]# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: OPL3SA23 [Yamaha OPL3-SA23], device 0: CS4231 [Yamaha OPL3-SA23]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

which seemed to pick up my card.

6) Here is further info from /proc:

[root /proc/asound]# for I in *; do echo; echo; echo $I; cat $I; done


card0
cat: card0: Is a directory


cards
0 [OPL3SA23 ]: OPL3SA2 - Yamaha OPL3-SA23
Yamaha OPL3-SA23 at 0x538, irq 5, dma 1&0


devices
2: : timer
3: : sequencer
4: [ 0- 0]: raw midi
5: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
8: [ 0] : control


hwdep
00-00: OPL3 FM


modules
0 snd_opl3sa2


OPL3SA23
cat: OPL3SA23: Is a directory


oss
cat: oss: Is a directory


pcm
00-00: CS4231 : Yamaha OPL3-SA23 : playback 1 : capture 1


seq
cat: seq: Is a directory


timers
G0: system timer : 1000.000us (10000000 ticks)
C0-0: Yamaha OPL3-SA23 : 9.945us (65535 ticks)
C0-1: AdLib timer #1 : 80.000us (256 ticks)
C0-2: AdLib timer #2 : 320.000us (256 ticks)
P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE
P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE


version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.

7) open /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default-perms and add this line to the top…

<sound>=/dev/dsp* /dev/snd/*

And at the end, add this line…

<console> 0666 <sound> 0600 root

8) Create /etc/init.d/audio_CTR

[root@chrismob ~]# cat /etc/init.d/audio_CTR
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 50 83
# description: modprobe the soundcard
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Required-Start: $syslog messagebus
# Short-Description: Modprobe audio
# Description: moprobe the soundcard
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

start()
{
echo -n $"Modprobe soundcard:"
modprobe snd-opl3sa2
amixer set Master 2
amixer set Master15
amixer set PCM 2
amixer set PCM 33
RETVAL=$?
echo ""
return $RETVAL
}

stop()
{
echo -n "Stopping soundcard:"
rmmod snd-opl3sa2
rmmod snd-opl3-lib
RETVAL=$?
echo ""
return $RETVAL
}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
force-reload|restart|reload)
stop
start
;;
status)
status audio_CTR
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|condrestart}"
exit 3
;;
esac

exit $RETVAL

9) chmod 755 /etc/init.d/audio_CTR

10) chkconfig --add audio_CTR

11) Finally, I tested the audio properly with xmms.

Chris.