I'm still waiting for my demo unit from Tangent. Latest update is they think it may be a hardware issue (missing a resistor). I should know more Monday. If this is the case, then the driver should work with very minor modifications (subsystem ID addition). Tobin On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:40 +0100, Rene Dohmen wrote: > > > Op Mar 22, 2008, om 8:09 PM heeft Tobin Davis het volgende geschreven: > > > > > Rene, don't bother bugging Tangent. I have a demo unit on the way. > > My first priority is getting the driver working. > > > > Tangent really won't help much - their a distributor, not the OEM. > > This is an MSI Crystal 945 in a Tangent shell. > > > > > > > I know that the system is actually a Crystal 945. I got the > touchscreen working via a dev driver from salt (so not tangent) > On the mainboard there is a conenctor: JFP1that goes to the ms4088 > board. The mainboard connects to: > - power led > - hdd led > - speakers > - main power switch > > > I can provide you with some photoos if you like. > > > As stated earlier: the sound is working by with very low volume > levels > > > > > > > > If you want to try something, see if the bios can be reflashed with > > the Crystal 945 firmware. > > > > > > > I sound working with the original crystal? I don't think tangent has > flshed their BIOS to another version. > In the crystal 945 specs I found that the're using a Realtek ALC262 > with azalia codec, maybe this helps. > > > Rene > > > > > > > As to the speaker board, where on the main board is it mounted? Is > > the header labeled? How many pins? It sounds like the speakers may > > be on the front panel header, which would make them function like > > headphones. Or this board is custom build for this application and > > I don't know what I'm talking about. > > > > Tobin > > > > > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:59 +0100, Rene Dohmen wrote: > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > I'm glad t o read that there are other people with the same problem > > > on the same system. > > > I just opened my Tangent 8000S and it has indeed a MSI mainboard: > > > MS7290. The speakers are connected to a small custom board: MS-4088 > > > There's no extra chip on this customboard and the board is directly > > > connected to the mainboard. So probably the signal leaving the > > > mainboard in amplified already. (or there's a amplifier builtin the > > > speakers) > > > > > > Next week i'll have some time to put tangent under some more pressure > > > for info, so maybe that will speed up things a little bit. > > > > > > Grz Rene > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Alsa-devel mailing list > > > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > > > > -- Tobin Davis > > > > > > love, n.: > > When you don't want someone too close--because you're very sensitive > > to pleasure. > > -- Tobin Davis I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. -- Jay Gould _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
