On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 12:48, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > At Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:54:23 -0500, > > Scott Barnes wrote: > > > > > > I'm not a subscriber of this list, so CC me. > > > > > > I managed to make the cs4236 alsa driver work with the CS4237B in the > > > Dell Inspiron 3000 (making it the FIRST driver in linux to fully > > > support it without any problems). The required modification is pretty > > > minor, you just need to add a module option to the snd-card-cs4236 > > > module that disables the version check code for the control port in > > > cs4236.c under the lowlevel drivers. The specific part I'm referring > > > to is the code where it gets two variables (ver1 and ver2) and compares > > > them then if they don't match it fails and says the control port is not > > > valid. If this check is disabled it allows the driver to load with the > > > cs4237b in the Dell Inspiron without any problems and the driver still > > > works flawlessly despite the mismatch. Would someone please implement > > > this before the next release? Thanks in advance. > > > > Could you send us a patch? Then i can commit it to cvs asap. > > It's a wrong solution. The control port must be known to use all chip > features (especially enhanced mixer). The check is really there for such > silly assumptions that not all I/O resources are neccessary. > > Jaroslav
Ah, but I'm not assuming it's unnecessary, but the CS4237B in the Inspiron 3000 can use any not already used IO as the control port but it reports incorrectly. I know because with the modification it still works flawlessly (even the enhanced mixer). > > ----- > Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com > ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org > > -- -- -- Reeve the cat ----BEGIN FORTUNE---- You had mail. Paul read it, so ask him what it said. ----END FORTUNE---- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P+ L++++ E- W++ N o K- w--- O M-- V-- PS+++ PE Y PGP t+++ 5 X+ R+++ tv+ b+++ DI++ D+ G e* h-- r+++ y** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
