From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jaroslaw Sobierski Subject: Re: S/PDIF on AD1980 patch Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:01:52 -0800 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1045731712.3e549980214db@webmail.namezero.com> References: <1045497687.3e5107575caeb@webmail3.namezero.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Quoting Takashi Iwai : > At Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:01:27 -0800, > Jaroslaw Sobierski wrote: > > > > > > Another question though. I still cannot get the AC3 pass-through to work. > > I assume the spdif source must be set to AC-Link (which is hw-reset default > > > anyway), and I figure all other stuff should be set by alsa (like > Category > > Code, etc.). I have no problem with AC3 on emu10k1, so I guess mplayer is > > requesting correct stream params from alsa. Yet on AC97 I can't get it to > > > work (amp keeps indicating a PCM stream). Any suggestions what to look > for? > > hmm.. ICH4 has a separate SPDIF channel and it looks like we don't use > this properly. that is, SPDIF is routed via the normal slot 3/4. > perhaps we should route the spdif via slot 10/11 (in GLOB_CNT bit > 30:31 to 1:1), and set SPSA to the corresponding value. > the definition of iec958 in ICH.conf should be rewritten, too... The default configuration for ad1980 is to use slots 7/8. 3/4 is not the best choice since the DACs are set to this by default. I don't think ICH4 has anything to do with this, I downloaded the specs a while ago only to realize that it just gives you access to the ac97 regs and that's it. There's practically nothing to configure on the south bridge itself. > > anyway, can you check whether the register 0x3a is set correctly when > mplayer tries to play ac3? > Yes and no :-). I dumped all ac97 regs from /proc and was going to send you teh list, but they did not change at all between PCM and ac3. I later discovered, quite by accident, that for some reason ac3 is never routed to the ac97 codec - when I choose the hwac3 option the stream always goes to emu10k1 (and plays correctly over its spdif), even though I explicitly specify "hw:1". I have to try unloading the modules for emu and see what happens then. But this seems anyway a bug. Unless the ICH driver declares no possibilty to create open ac3 stream and alsa falls back on the default card? -------------- Fycio (J.Sobierski) fycio@gucio.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge