Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

Hello,
I can't get the S/PDIF out to work on P5QL-EM motherboard. 

First of all, it doesn't detect the board configuration correctly, the
motherboard has an HDMI output and an S/PDIF header (I have a TV
connected to one and an amplifier to the other, in case one output
will "go live"). 

aplay -L normally only shows th HDMI port, however if I add this 
options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig probe_mask=1 
to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, it will show both. 

Problem is, there seems to be no signal coming out of any of the two
digital ports (they are not muted in mixer) in either PCM or AC3
pass-through mode.

I compiled the "alsa-kernel" hoping that the latest commits related to
ALC1200 would help, but it hasn't helped.

Here's the output of alsa-info.sh:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b62b56c5ce0aa383fef1be0f55b87b4e27e8ab63
Again, it's running "alsa-kernel", checked in just 12 hours ago.

Let me know what I can do to help, I am a developer but Alsa is not
my territory.

Thanks
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Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Wu Fengguang]

Hi Andrei,

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:51:15PM -0500, Andrei Tanas wrote:
> Hello,
> I can't get the S/PDIF out to work on P5QL-EM motherboard. 
> 
> First of all, it doesn't detect the board configuration correctly, the
> motherboard has an HDMI output and an S/PDIF header (I have a TV
> connected to one and an amplifier to the other, in case one output
> will "go live"). 
> 
> aplay -L normally only shows th HDMI port, however if I add this 
> options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig probe_mask=1 
> to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, it will show both. 

I cannot find any 'HDMI' words in your report below.
Can you provide some more info about it? Such as the full output of
'aplay -l' and 'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#3'.

Thank you,
Fengguang

> Problem is, there seems to be no signal coming out of any of the two
> digital ports (they are not muted in mixer) in either PCM or AC3
> pass-through mode.
> 
> I compiled the "alsa-kernel" hoping that the latest commits related to
> ALC1200 would help, but it hasn't helped.
> 
> Here's the output of alsa-info.sh:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b62b56c5ce0aa383fef1be0f55b87b4e27e8ab63
> Again, it's running "alsa-kernel", checked in just 12 hours ago.
> 
> Let me know what I can do to help, I am a developer but Alsa is not
> my territory.
> 
> Thanks
> _______________________________________________
> Alsa-devel mailing list
> Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel

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Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:16:47 +0800,
Wu Fengguang wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:51:15PM -0500, Andrei Tanas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I can't get the S/PDIF out to work on P5QL-EM motherboard. 
> > 
> > First of all, it doesn't detect the board configuration correctly, the
> > motherboard has an HDMI output and an S/PDIF header (I have a TV
> > connected to one and an amplifier to the other, in case one output
> > will "go live"). 
> > 
> > aplay -L normally only shows th HDMI port, however if I add this 
> > options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig probe_mask=1 
> > to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, it will show both. 
> 
> I cannot find any 'HDMI' words in your report below.
> Can you provide some more info about it? Such as the full output of
> 'aplay -l' and 'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#3'.

Also, try sound-2.6.git tree instead.
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/sound-2.6.git


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

> I cannot find any 'HDMI' words in your report below.
> Can you provide some more info about it? Such as the full output of
> 'aplay -l' and 'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#3'.

Here's "aplay -L" with autodetection
htpc@htpc:~$ aplay -L
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel
    HDMI Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)


And here's with "options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig probe_mask=1"
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel
    HDMI Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)


And here's "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0"
Codec: Realtek ALC888
Address: 0
Vendor Id: 0x10ec0888
Subsystem Id: 0x104382fe
Revision Id: 0x100101
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Default Amp-In caps: N/A
Default Amp-Out caps: N/A
GPIO: io=2, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=1, wake=0
  IO[0]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
  IO[1]: enable=0, dir=0, wake=0, sticky=0, data=0
Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x04 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x05 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x06 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  Digital: Enabled Copyright Non-Audio GenLevel
  Digital category: 0x2
  PCM:
    rates [0x5e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000
    bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x07 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x08 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x10011b: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x0b, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  SDI-Select: 0
  PCM:
    rates [0x160]: 44100 48000 96000
    bits [0x6]: 16 20
    formats [0x1]: PCM
  Connection: 1
     0x23
Node 0x09 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x10011b: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x0b, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  SDI-Select: 0
  PCM:
    rates [0x160]: 44100 48000 96000
    bits [0x6]: 16 20
    formats [0x1]: PCM
  Connection: 1
     0x22
Node 0x0a [Audio Input] wcaps 0x100391: Stereo Digital
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  SDI-Select: 0
  Digital:
  Digital category: 0x0
  PCM:
    rates [0x160]: 44100 48000 96000
    bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32
    formats [0x1]: PCM
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 1
     0x1f
Node 0x0b [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x17, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x19 0x19] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
[0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
  Connection: 10
     0x18 0x19 0x1a 0x1b 0x1c 0x1d 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x17
Node 0x0c [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x13 0x13]
  Connection: 2
     0x02 0x0b
Node 0x0d [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Connection: 2
     0x03 0x0b
Node 0x0e [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Connection: 2
     0x04 0x0b
Node 0x0f [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Connection: 2
     0x05 0x0b
Node 0x10 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x211: Stereo Digital
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  Digital:
  Digital category: 0x0
  PCM:
    rates [0x5e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000
    bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x11 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400300: Mono Digital
  Pincap 0x00000010: OUT
  Pin Default 0x99430130: [Fixed] SPDIF Out at Int ATAPI
    Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown
    DefAssociation = 0x3, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Connection: 1
     0x10
Node 0x12 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x13 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0000003e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger
  Pin Default 0x01014010: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26
Node 0x15 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0000003e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger
  Pin Default 0x01011012: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x2
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c 0x0d* 0x0e 0x0f 0x26
Node 0x16 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x00000036: IN OUT Detect Trigger
  Pin Default 0x01016011: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Orange
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x1
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c 0x0d 0x0e* 0x0f 0x26
Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x00000036: IN OUT Detect Trigger
  Pin Default 0x01012014: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Grey
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x4
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f* 0x26
Node 0x18 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x80 0x80]
  Pincap 0x0000373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
  Pin Default 0x01a19840: [Jack] Mic at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink
    DefAssociation = 0x4, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26
Node 0x19 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x80 0x80]
  Pincap 0x0000373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
  Pin Default 0x02a19c50: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink
    DefAssociation = 0x5, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN VREF_80
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26
Node 0x1a [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x80 0x80]
  Pincap 0x0000373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
  Pin Default 0x0181304f: [Jack] Line In at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Blue
    DefAssociation = 0x4, Sequence = 0xf
  Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26
Node 0x1b [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0000373e: IN OUT HP Detect Trigger
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
  Pin Default 0x02214c20: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Front
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
    DefAssociation = 0x2, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26
Node 0x1c [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400001: Stereo
  Pincap 0x00000020: IN
  Pin Default 0x593301f0: [N/A] CD at Int ATAPI
    Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown
    DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN
Node 0x1d [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400000: Mono
  Pincap 0x00000020: IN
  Pin Default 0x4015e601: [N/A] Speaker at Ext N/A
    Conn = Optical, Color = White
    DefAssociation = 0x0, Sequence = 0x1
  Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN
Node 0x1e [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400300: Mono Digital
  Pincap 0x00000010: OUT
  Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
    DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Connection: 1
     0x06
Node 0x1f [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400200: Mono Digital
  Pincap 0x00000020: IN
  Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
    DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN
Node 0x20 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00040: Mono
  Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=17
Node 0x21 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x22 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
[0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
  Connection: 11
     0x18 0x19 0x1a 0x1b 0x1c 0x1d 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x17 0x0b
Node 0x23 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
[0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
  Connection: 11
     0x18 0x19 0x1a 0x1b 0x1c 0x1d 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x17 0x0b
Node 0x24 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00000: Mono
Node 0x25 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x11: Stereo
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0
  PCM:
    rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
    bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
    formats [0x1]: PCM
Node 0x26 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00] [0x80 0x80]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
  Connection: 2
     0x25 0x0b

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:22:10 -0500,
Andrei Tanas wrote:
> 
> > I cannot find any 'HDMI' words in your report below.
> > Can you provide some more info about it? Such as the full output of
> > 'aplay -l' and 'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#3'.
> 
> Here's "aplay -L" with autodetection
> htpc@htpc:~$ aplay -L
> default:CARD=Intel
>     HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>     Default Audio Device
> front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>     Front speakers
> surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>     4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>     4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>     5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>     5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
>     7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
> hdmi:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
>     HDA Intel
>     HDMI Audio Output

This should be a bug of alsa-lib.  The latest version shouldn't show
this entry any more.


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

> Also, try sound-2.6.git tree instead.
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/sound-2.6.git

It exits with "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly". Did you mean
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
instead?

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:26:49 -0500,
Andrei Tanas wrote:
> 
> > Also, try sound-2.6.git tree instead.
> >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> 
> It exits with "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly". Did you mean
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> instead?

Yep, sorry for typo.

I should copy URL somewhere...


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:25:49 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> This should be a bug of alsa-lib.  The latest version shouldn't show
> this entry any more.

Yes, you're right. This is "aplay -L" with alsa-lib 1.0.18
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC1200 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

One unexpected thing is that "PCM Out" is not listed as a capability of
IEC958 control (as shown by amixer):

Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]

Is that normal?

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:38:37 -0500,
Andrei Tanas wrote:
> 
> One unexpected thing is that "PCM Out" is not listed as a capability of
> IEC958 control (as shown by amixer):
> 
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Capture channels: Mono
>   Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off]
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
>   Playback channels: Mono
>   Mono: Playback [on]
> 
> Is that normal?

What do you mean "PCM Out" at all?


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:40:24 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
>>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
>>   Playback channels: Mono
>>   Capture channels: Mono
>>   Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off]
>> Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
>>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
>>   Playback channels: Mono
>>   Mono: Playback [on]
>> 
>> Is that normal?
> 
> What do you mean "PCM Out" at all?

http://alsa.opensrc.org/DigitalOut says: 'set to "PCM Out"'

>From some other reports, I expected to see something like this:

Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
 Capabilities: enum
 Items: 'PCM Out' 'H/W In 0' 'H/W In 1' 'IEC958 In L' 'IEC958 In R'
 Item0: 'PCM Out'
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Output',0
 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
 Playback channels: Mono
 Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
 Capabilities: enum
 Items: 'PCM Out' 'H/W In 0' 'H/W In 1' 'IEC958 In L' 'IEC958 In R'
 Item0: 'PCM Out'

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:25:43 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> Also, try sound-2.6.git tree instead.
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/sound-2.6.git

patch_realtek.c are identical and hda_intel.c show only minor differences
which don't look related in this and "alsa-kernel" get tree that I used. Do
you think I should still try it?

Is there some "official" method of debugging this: is it possible to see
what the driver is doing with the data stream fed to it (other than
inserting a bunch of printk's in the code)?

Thanks.

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:48:31 -0500,
Andrei Tanas wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:40:24 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> >> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
> >>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
> >>   Playback channels: Mono
> >>   Capture channels: Mono
> >>   Mono: Playback [on] Capture [off]
> >> Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
> >>   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
> >>   Playback channels: Mono
> >>   Mono: Playback [on]
> >> 
> >> Is that normal?
> > 
> > What do you mean "PCM Out" at all?
> 
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/DigitalOut says: 'set to "PCM Out"'
> 
> >From some other reports, I expected to see something like this:
> 
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
>  Capabilities: enum
>  Items: 'PCM Out' 'H/W In 0' 'H/W In 1' 'IEC958 In L' 'IEC958 In R'
>  Item0: 'PCM Out'
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Output',0
>  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
>  Playback channels: Mono
>  Mono: Playback [on]
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
>  Capabilities: enum
>  Items: 'PCM Out' 'H/W In 0' 'H/W In 1' 'IEC958 In L' 'IEC958 In R'
>  Item0: 'PCM Out'

This is for ice1724 chip.


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:52:03 -0500,
Andrei Tanas wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:25:43 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > Also, try sound-2.6.git tree instead.
> >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> 
> patch_realtek.c are identical and hda_intel.c show only minor differences
> which don't look related in this and "alsa-kernel" get tree that I used. Do
> you think I should still try it?

You should keep tracking the sound git tree if you'd like to catch up
the upstream changes quickly.  Right now there is no big difference
regarding Realtek stuff, though.

> Is there some "official" method of debugging this: is it possible to see
> what the driver is doing with the data stream fed to it (other than
> inserting a bunch of printk's in the code)?

You can use hda-verb program to access the codec verbs directly.
Also you can use the hda-emulator for debugging. But you have the real
hardware, so it's maybe better to use your own hardware.

The programs can be found in
	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/misc/


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

>> Is there some "official" method of debugging this: is it possible to see
>> what the driver is doing with the data stream fed to it (other than
>> inserting a bunch of printk's in the code)?
> 
> You can use hda-verb program to access the codec verbs directly.
> Also you can use the hda-emulator for debugging. But you have the real
> hardware, so it's maybe better to use your own hardware.
> 
> The programs can be found in
> 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/misc/

My /dev/snd only has these:
controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1c  pcmC0D1p  pcmC0D2c  timer
Should there be hw* nodes?

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:59:42 -0500,
Andrei Tanas wrote:
> 
> >> Is there some "official" method of debugging this: is it possible to see
> >> what the driver is doing with the data stream fed to it (other than
> >> inserting a bunch of printk's in the code)?
> > 
> > You can use hda-verb program to access the codec verbs directly.
> > Also you can use the hda-emulator for debugging. But you have the real
> > hardware, so it's maybe better to use your own hardware.
> > 
> > The programs can be found in
> > 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/misc/
> 
> My /dev/snd only has these:
> controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1c  pcmC0D1p  pcmC0D2c  timer
> Should there be hw* nodes?

Build with CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y.


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:02:16 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:59:42 -0500,
> Andrei Tanas wrote:
> > 
> > >> Is there some "official" method of debugging this: is it possible to see
> > >> what the driver is doing with the data stream fed to it (other than
> > >> inserting a bunch of printk's in the code)?
> > > 
> > > You can use hda-verb program to access the codec verbs directly.
> > > Also you can use the hda-emulator for debugging. But you have the real
> > > hardware, so it's maybe better to use your own hardware.
> > > 
> > > The programs can be found in
> > > 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/misc/
> > 
> > My /dev/snd only has these:
> > controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1c  pcmC0D1p  pcmC0D2c  timer
> > Should there be hw* nodes?
> 
> Build with CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y.

... and before someone complains: I already fixed README to mention
about this, and released as version 0.3.


Takashi

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:02:16 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>> My /dev/snd only has these:
>> controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1c  pcmC0D1p  pcmC0D2c  timer
>> Should there be hw* nodes?
> 
> Build with CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y.

Ok, I can see them now.
So, as far as I understand I should be able to use hda-verb to manually
control the codec. Can you suggest what I should read to understand how to
do this, what commands are available etc. (I have ALC883 datasheet).

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Wu Fengguang]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:22:10AM -0500, Andrei Tanas wrote:
> > I cannot find any 'HDMI' words in your report below.
> > Can you provide some more info about it? Such as the full output of
> > 'aplay -l' and 'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#3'.
> 
> Here's "aplay -L" with autodetection

Thank you. What's the output of 'aplay -l' ?

> And here's "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0"

This is the regular codec.
Are there /proc/asound/card0/codec#{1,2,3}?

The HDMI codec would look like this one:

% cat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#3                                                                                                    
Codec: Generic 8086 INTEL G45 DEVELK                                                                                                 
Address: 3                                                                                                                           
Vendor Id: 0x80862803                                                                                                                
Subsystem Id: 0x80860101                                                                                                             
Revision Id: 0x100000                                                                                                                
No Modem Function Group found                                                                                                        
Default PCM:                                                                                                                         
    rates [0x0]:                                                                                                                     
    bits [0x0]:                                                                                                                      
    formats [0x0]:                                                                                                                   
Default Amp-In caps: N/A                                                                                                             
Default Amp-Out caps: N/A                                                                                                            
GPIO: io=0, o=0, i=0, unsolicited=0, wake=0                                                                                          
Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x6211: 8-Channels Digital                                                                            
  Converter: stream=0, channel=0                                                                                                     
  Digital: Enabled                                                                                                                   
  Digital category: 0x0                                                                                                              
  PCM:                                                                                                                               
    rates [0x7f0]: 32000 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000                                                                       
    bits [0x1e]: 16 20 24 32                                                                                                         
    formats [0x5]: PCM AC3                                                                                                           
Node 0x03 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40739d: 8-Channels Digital Amp-Out CP                                                                
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1                                                                         
  Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x80]                                                                                                         
  Pincap 0x00000094: OUT Detect HDMI                                                                                                 
  Pin Default 0x18560010: [Jack] Digital Out at Int HDMI                                                                             
    Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown                                                                                                  
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0                                                                                             
  Pin-ctls: 0x00:                                                                                                                    
  Unsolicited: tag=08, enabled=1                                                                                                     
  Connection: 1                                                                                                                      
     0x02                                                                                                                            

Thanks,
Fengguang

Re: Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:58:44 +0800, Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:22:10AM -0500, Andrei Tanas wrote:
>> Here's "aplay -L" with autodetection
> 
> Thank you. What's the output of 'aplay -l' ?

I don't have access to the machine now. From memory, it was showing two
items: one device with two subdevices.
I'll provide you exact details later.

>> And here's "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0"
> 
> This is the regular codec.
> Are there /proc/asound/card0/codec#{1,2,3}?

There was only one.

> The HDMI codec would look like this one:
> % cat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#3                                        
 

I saw nothing like that.

I got an SB Audigy card and had all set up in minutes, so it's not as
important for me to get this running, but I'd like to help resolve this
anyway - there seems to be a lot of uncertainty among other Asus P5Q users.

Will it help to enable SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK and SND_DEBUG?

Thanks,
Andrei.