At Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:42:56 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:28:30 +0200, > > Carsten Koch wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have an Abit NF7 nforce2 main board, which has an optical SPDIF output > >>controlled by the on-board sound. > >> > >>With nvida's "nvsound" driver, the optical output works. > >> > >>With alsa, I have been unable to get any sound out of it so far. > >>I tried the alsa-0.9.0.cvs20030217-23 alsa drivers that came with > >>my SuSE 8.2 system, the release 0.9.6 drivers and last Friday's CVS. > >> > >>lspci reports the device as: > >> > >>00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio > >>Controler (MCP) (rev a1) > >> Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 1c02 > >> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > >> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > >> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- > >> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > >> Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max) > >> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 > >> Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256] > >> Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] > >> Region 2: Memory at ef001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > >> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > >> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA > >> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > >> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > >> > >>Alsamixer says "Card: NVidia nForce2", "Chip: Realtek ALC650 rev 3" and offers > >>these four IEC958 items: "Item: IEC958" (on/off), "Item: IEC958 Input Monitor" > >>(on/off), > >>"Item: IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA" (3 level control), "Analog to IEC958 Output" > >>(on/off). > >> > >>I was expecting that "Item: IEC958" would turn the optical SPDIF output on/off, > >>but the light is always on and the sound is always off, no matter how I set > >>that switch. > > > > > > how did you test spdif out? you need to choose the PCM "spdif" (aka > > "iec958") for the proper output over SPDIF. > > > > > >>I was also expecting that "Item: IEC958 Input Monitor" would route the SPDIF > >>sound from my DVB card (whose output I have connected to the SPDIF input on > >>the main board) to the optical SPDIF output when I set that switch to on, but > >>again toggling that switch does nothing: the light is always on and the sound > >>is always off. > > > > > > spdif input on ALC650 didn't work until this morning. i applied the > > patch from James to cvs, so now it should work (as long as sf's > > anon-cvs repository is properly mirrored). > > > > > > Takashi > > > > > Also, do NOT use alsamixer to test this. I have found that alsamixergui > works ok. > alsamixer has some bugs, e.g. Muting the IEC958 output actually enables > output, and un-muting disables output, but alsamixergui gets everything > right.
hm, it's interesting. do you mean "muting" as the state with 'MM' on the top of level bar? > Also, alsamixer cannot handle all the different toggle switches correctly. could you elaborate this problem? this then should be fixed. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
