Re: Yamaha Sound Drivers

Joshua M. Thompson (om@mich.com)
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 23:28:12 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Robert Lowery wrote:

> I have a Sony Vaio PCG-C1XE Picture Book (has the same YMF-744B as the
> 505ve)
>
> SB emulation works fine with kernel 2.3.29. It's only 8 bit SB-Pro though.

Your BIOS might init it differently. I know that I used to have an Intel
motherboard-based machine at work about a year ago with this chip (or a
similar model) and did manage to get the SB Pro mode working too.
Basically I read the AC97 specs and found the specs on the register that
controls the SB Pro mode, then searched the PCI config space and found the
register (I was lucky; its boot config was identical to that listed in the
AC97 specs so I hit it on the first try). I flipped the necessary bit,
loaded the sb driver and voila.

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