>I am wondering on the status of sound drivers for the newer Yamaha sound
>chipsets.
It's blacklisted by ALSA due to lack of programming information.
>I have a laptop with the Yamaha YMF-744B chipset in it. (The Sony Vaio 505ve
>to be exact.) Checking the 2.3.30 kernel, I see it is not supported as of
>yet. (Unless I am missing something.)
I have the same model laptop. No, you're not missing anything. I have been
in contact with someone at Yamaha about this issue, unfortunately specs
are not available without an NDA for now.
>Is someone working on this chipset at the moment? Is it overlooked? Do they
>need docs? The current docset for this chip and a number of others can be
>found at http://www.yamahayst.com/pcaudio/download/index.htm . The docs appear
>to give enough information to do a driver, but I am not certain not having had
>to write one.
[...]
Unfortunately the documents available from the web do not contain
sufficient information to write a driver.
>Hopefully this information is of some use. I would like to get sound working
>on this little box. ("It's waffer thin!") At least to stop badly written apps
>with sound from coreing.
>
>I am willing to help test drivers for the YMF744B chipset, if that will help.
I suggest you email or call Yamaha and POLITELY suggest that they make the
relevant documents available to the Linux community without requiring an
NDA.
Dave
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