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Re: tlug: Yamaha OPL3-SA3



On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Christopher Sekiya wrote:

> (doing this really quickly, have to catch a train)
> 
> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Domenico Carlucci wrote:
> 
> > That's what I believed., but it does not seems to work!
> > Is it a pnp device? 
> 
> THe OPL-3 (and variants) is _not_ an audio device (/dev/audio and
> /dev/dsp) per se -- it's a synthesizer (/dev/music).  You can play MIDI
> files through it, but not .au or .wav.  Support is enabled in OSS by
> turning on the OPL-3 (and generic synth support) in the sound portion of
> the kernel config.  It's not PnP ... the OPL-3 _always_ sits at (doing
> this from memory) 0x388.

Chris - it *can* be pnp, on a pnp soundblaster.  I have one of these
stupid things back in the Utah office, and the pnpdump of it clearly shows
a logical device for the opl3.  The only recommended address is 0x388, but
you *could* set it to anything you wanted to...

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Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April 1998 Saturday, Tokyo Station
Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code
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