Hi! I was able to use the SPDIF output of my Dell I8200 (CS4205 crappy sound), by making the following small change in the alsa drivers:
=================================================================== RCS file: RCS/ac97_id.h,v 45c45,46 < #define AC97_ID_CS4205 0x43525958 --- > #define AC97_ID_CS4205 0x4352595B Now, I have the IEC958 controls OK, and everything works, but, I still wasn't able to output an AC3 stream into the SPDIF. My card has no LFE, and REAR controls in the alsamixer. That is ok, because the CS4205 is not a 5.1 sound card, at least in the 'analog' sense. If I try aplay -D plug:rear or aplay -D plug:lfe or aplay -D plug:surround51 I get things like: 'aplay: set_params:764: Broken configuration for this PCM: no configurations available' which I think is ok. '-D plug:iec958' works. BUT, what about sending a AC3 stream directly to the SPDIF?? How can I do that?? I tried: ac3play --card 0,0 matrix.ac3 but I get nothing but noise. The same noise with mplayer -ao alsa9:iec958 -ac hwac3 -dvd 1 Mplayer tell me: alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 2 channels, AC3 alsa-init: soundcard set to iec958:AES0=0x2,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 if I tried -channels 6, mplayer tried 'surround51' and I get other error. Any idea how can I try to do that??? Thank you very much!! Matias ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
