At Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:37:01 +0200, Magnus Sandin wrote: > > Hello! > > On my ASUS P5P800-VM motherboard, the onboard AC97-chip (Realtek ALC655) > does not indicate that there are any S/PDIF functionality available. > > However, the manufacturer (Asus) claim that there are S/PDIF output on > the board, and of course there is. > > I created a patch that check the PCI subsystem vendor id and device id, > and if it's a match to this board it ignores the AC97_EI_SPDIF bit when > the controls are built. > This allows me to get the desired S/PDIF output to work just as expected. > > I'm not sure this is good practise to just ignore this bit or force the > bit to 1? > > I have checked the BIOS for settings regarding S/PDIF, but there are > none. The only audio setting available is to control if the chip shall > be enabled or disabled. Well, I'd call it a BIOS bug. But such a thing can always happen, of course... > What do you recommend in this case? I think your approach is OK. The only concern is that the board with the same PCI SSID might have a codec without SPDIF, but I guess the probability of this regression is quite low. So, just send a patch for merging (maybe after 1.0.12 release). Thanks, Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
