Thank you for your reply! >Could you send me output from 'amixer contents' ?
Will do as soon as I get a hold of the laptop (later this afternoon). >Are you kidding? It's a simple AC'97 codec. Please, check the manufacture >information before flames (www.crystal.com). >From what I saw on the website (again, this may be pure propaganda, but it does seem like this thing does have some additional features, and perhaps more importantly is capable of at least 2 hw streams, like Ess Maestro 3i was/is -- however, let me state that I am not a hw/driver specialist, so I may be misinterpreting this): (http://www.crystal.com/design/products/overview/detail.cfm?d=146) ... "Delta Sigma and mixed-signal technology" ... "Coupling the CS4205 with a PCI audio accelerator or core logic supporting the AC '97 interface" ... "Digital docking of I2S output, 3 synchronous I2S inputs" ... "Performance digital mixer with SRSR 3D stereo enhancement" ... "S/PDIF digital audio output" ... Also, what caught my eye is the "hw-mixer" which perhaps could be used for down-mixing streams (I may be talking nonsense here). I am not sure what this means, but judging from the given info, it does not look to me like the basic on-board chip. I do remember using Ess maestro 3i laptop chip, which was capable of providing 2 streams. The other thing is that OSS (commercial) drivers do allow opening of the second stream (which unfortunately does not work properly, go figure). Finally, I did notice that if the laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) does go into the power-save mode (any of the aspects, such as powering down the screen or anything else defined in the BIOS), that machine sometimes hard-locks when trying to run sound stuff afterwards (0.9 rc5) using Mdk 9.0 (2.4.19 kernel), but I am not sure whether this has anything to do with Alsa, I'll keep digging and see what I come up with. Again, any help on this issue is greatly appreciated! Ico ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
