Re: Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo III 7.1

[Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de>]

On Saturday 28 June 2003 14:28, Benny Sjostrand wrote:
> But, amp_hercules(...) and hercules_mixer_init(...) function have only
> been implemented to do some specific initializations to the Game Theater XP
> card, which probably is very similar to the Fortissimo card, but my guess is
> that something slight diferenent is needed on the initialization phase.
> [...]
> If you say that it works better with the external_amp=1, then this card
> must have some similarity with the Santa Cruz card ... the amp_voyectra(...)
> function will also  set some GPIO's on the seconary cs4294 codec, who knows
> if this is good or bad for the Fortissimo card ....

It worked for some time (with the mentioned distortion and crackling but seems 
to have stopped working now. Sound now dies after about a minute from module 
load, even after a cold reboot. Behaviour now is the same independent from 
external_amp. I don't have the slightest idea why this is so. I had the 
machine switched off for a week, turned it on and it was like this. The only 
thing that changed is the VGA card, but it does the same thing even in pure 
text mode, without DRM drivers or AGPGART modules loaded.

So in conclusion, I can only say that external_amp was good for the card but 
only for some time :-/

Also, the problems now seem to be somewhat independent from Windows drivers 
having seen the card before. In the past, I had all kinds of different side 
effects, ranging from the card running better after a reboot from Windows to 
complete inactivity.

> What about the other functions on the card:
> Have you tested the SPDIF output/input AC3 pass-through?
>  the different outputs, center, rear, surround speakers ?

Sorry, I don't have any hardware that knows SPDIF. The analog speaker outputs 
all seemed to be dead.

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