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

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

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:54 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:53 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > So maybe the distortion problem here is just an app that's sending
> > > > a clipped signal.
> > >
> > > It's a known problem with several cards that use the STAC9708 codec.
> > > It seems the chip doesn't get initialized/configured correctly;
> > > several registers aren't documented.
> >
> > Should be trivial to RE using the kX driver (the kxctrl utility lets you
> > read and write AC97 registers).
> 
> I already read the AC97 registers of my ymfpci card in Windows, but
> didn't find anything useful.

OK, then I guess someone just needs to fire up SoftICE and set some IO
breakpoints to log all read/write to the AC97 codec.

Lee



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