Re: no front speaker sound with ALC262

[Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>]

I'm still waiting for them to send it to me.  Last I heard it was held
up due to some resistor modifications, but that was two weeks ago.

Tobin

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:02 +0200, Rene Dohmen wrote:

> Tobin,
> 
> 
> Did you receive the unit?
> I'm wondering if you had some progress already.
> 
> Greets,
> Rene
> 
> 
> Op Mar 31, 2008, om 3:30 PM heeft Tobin Davis het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > Yes, it would.  Hmmm
> >
> > Well, I hope they send the unit today.
> >
> > Tobin
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 13:57 +0200, Rene Dohmen wrote:
> >>
> >> with the preinstalled win XP the sound is working OK.
> >> So that would rule out hardware problems with the soundcard.
> >>
> >>
> >> Rene
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Op Mar 28, 2008, om 7:28 PM heeft Tobin Davis het volgende  
> >> geschreven:
> >>
> >>> I'm still waiting for my demo unit from Tangent.  Latest update  
> >>> is they think it may be a hardware issue (missing a resistor).  I  
> >>> should know more Monday.  If this is the case, then the driver  
> >>> should work with very minor modifications (subsystem ID addition).
> >>>
> >>> Tobin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:40 +0100, Rene Dohmen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Op Mar 22, 2008, om 8:09 PM heeft Tobin Davis het volgende  
> >>>> geschreven:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Rene, don't bother bugging Tangent.  I have a demo unit on the  
> >>>>> way.  My first priority is getting the driver working.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tangent really won't help much - their a distributor, not the  
> >>>>> OEM.  This is an MSI Crystal 945 in a Tangent shell.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I know that the system is actually a Crystal 945. I got the  
> >>>> touchscreen working via a dev driver from salt (so not tangent)
> >>>> On the mainboard there is a conenctor: JFP1that goes to the  
> >>>> ms4088 board. The mainboard connects to:
> >>>> - power led
> >>>> - hdd led
> >>>> - speakers
> >>>> - main power switch
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I can provide you with some photoos if you like.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> As stated earlier: the sound is working by with very low volume  
> >>>> levels
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> If you want to try something, see if the bios can be reflashed  
> >>>>> with the Crystal 945 firmware.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I sound working with the original crystal? I don't think tangent  
> >>>> has flshed their BIOS to another version.
> >>>> In the crystal 945 specs I found that the're using a Realtek  
> >>>> ALC262 with azalia codec, maybe this helps.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Rene
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> As to the speaker board, where on the main board is it  
> >>>>> mounted?  Is the header labeled?  How many pins?  It sounds  
> >>>>> like the speakers may be on the front panel header, which would  
> >>>>> make them function like headphones.  Or this board is custom  
> >>>>> build for this application and I don't know what I'm talking  
> >>>>> about.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tobin
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:59 +0100, Rene Dohmen wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi Guys,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm glad t o read that there are other people with the same  
> >>>>>> problem
> >>>>>> on the same system.
> >>>>>> I just opened my Tangent 8000S and it has indeed a MSI mainboard:
> >>>>>> MS7290. The speakers are connected to a small custom board:  
> >>>>>> MS-4088
> >>>>>> There's no extra chip on this customboard and the board is  
> >>>>>> directly
> >>>>>> connected to the mainboard. So probably the signal leaving the
> >>>>>> mainboard in amplified already. (or there's a amplifier  
> >>>>>> builtin the
> >>>>>> speakers)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Next week i'll have some time to put tangent under some more  
> >>>>>> pressure
> >>>>>> for info, so maybe that will speed up things a little bit.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Grz Rene
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>> -- Tobin Davis 
> >>>>>
> >>>>> love, n.:
> >>>>> 	When you don't want someone too close--because you're very  
> >>>>> sensitive
> >>>>> 	to pleasure.
> >>>>
> >>> -- Tobin Davis 
> >>>
> >>> I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
> >>> 		-- Jay Gould
> >>
> >>
> > -- Tobin Davis 
> >
> > He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
> 
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