Hello
I just assembled a new nehalem based system with an Intel DX58SO motherboard, which comes with an Intel HDA ALC889 codec:
$ aplay -l
**** Lista de PLAYBACK Dispositivos Hardware ****
tarjeta 0: Intel [HDA Intel], dispositivo 0: ALC889 Analog [ALC889 Analog]
Subdispositivos: 1/1
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
tarjeta 0: Intel [HDA Intel], dispositivo 1: ALC889 Digital [ALC889 Digital]
Subdispositivos: 1/1
Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0
(Sorry for the spanish, btw, is there any way to change the output language?)
$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC889 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
Installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it (2.6.31-16 kernel). The analog audio worked out of the box, but I noticed that the output was really quiet, and the spdif output just wouldn't work, even after I updated manually from alsa 1.0.20 to 1.0.22. I think both are common problems:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1094534
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80990
When I do:
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.1 -ac hwac3 whatever_with_5.1_audio.mkv
I get:
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4484:(parse_args) Unknown parameter AES0
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:4617:(snd_config_expand) Parse arguments error: No such file or directory
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:0,1,AES0=6
Is there any workaround for this problem? Or ALC889 is just barely supported, and there is just no possible solution yet?
Thanks a lot, and happy new year.
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Francisco Moreno Muñoz
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