Re: Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA / emu10k1 / SPDIF / surround?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:59 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:53:47 -0400,
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:52 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:44:50 -0400,
> > > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:38 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > > But ac97 chip is never initialized if ac97_chip == 0.
> > > > 
> > > > Right, but the user tried my patch to set ac97_chip to 1 for that model,
> > > > and is still getting a "Wave" and a "PCM" control.  Is this the expected
> > > > behavior?
> > > 
> > > Yes.  As mentioned in the last mail, "Wave" -> "PCM" is done only on
> > > audigy, not on sb live.
> > 
> > So then what is the ddifference between the Wave and PCM controls?
> > Don't they do the same thing?
> 
> Wave = emu10k1 DSP digital volume
> PCM = ac97 PCM analog volume
> 
> IIRC, Wave is renamed to PCM on audigy because audigy doesn't use ac97
> PCM control.

OK, thanks for clarifying.  So maybe the distortion problem here is just
an app that's sending a clipped signal.

Please apply my patch from earlier in the thread, here it is again for
convenience.

Summary: Add identification for Live 5.1 [SB0220]

Signed-Off-By: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>

Index: alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/alsa/alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -u -r1.66 emu10k1_main.c
--- alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c      26 Aug 2005 16:26:40
-0000      1.66
+++ alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c      27 Aug 2005 22:58:59
-0000
@@ -741,6 +741,13 @@
         .emu10k1_chip = 1,
         .ac97_chip = 1,
         .sblive51 = 1} ,
+       /* Tested by Thomas Zehetbauer 27th Aug 2005 */
+       {.vendor = 0x1102, .device = 0x0002, .subsystem = 0x80651102,
+        .driver = "EMU10K1", .name = "SB Live 5.1 [SB0220]", 
+        .id = "Live",
+        .emu10k1_chip = 1,
+        .ac97_chip = 1,
+        .sblive51 = 1} ,
        {.vendor = 0x1102, .device = 0x0002, .subsystem = 0x80641102,
         .driver = "EMU10K1", .name = "SB Live 5.1", 
         .id = "Live",



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