From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: Support for realtek alc 655 Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:48:06 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3F539466.3090000@superbug.demon.co.uk> References: <1062413496.526.4.camel@jabawack.canini.org> <3F532F72.208@superbug.demon.co.uk> <1062440613.538.3.camel@jabawack.canini.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1062440613.538.3.camel@jabawack.canini.org> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Marco Canini Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Marco Canini wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:37, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >>Marco Canini wrote: >> >>>hi, >>> >>>i'm moving to buy a new mother board: gigabyte 8knxp. >>>it has integrated an audio ac97 codec chipset by realtek: alc655 >>>i searched in the sound cards matrix and i couldn't find it so i surfed >>>the web for any kind of support for it in linux but i found nothing. >>>from what i see in the ac97 support code the alc650 is supported but no mention to alc655. >>>is this chipset supported by alsa? >>> >>>thanks >> >>We have the specs for the chip, so supporting it should not be too much >>of a problem. See the nice PDF files from realtek web site :-) . >> >>If you get the motherboard, I could work with you to get it working. >>It looks very similar to the alc650, which is already supported, so the >>work involved whould not be too much. I an fairly sure that all that >>would need doing is to add recognition for the chip in ac97_codec.c and >>then program it exactly the same as the alc650. Some of the extra >>functions of the alc655 might not be supported, but you will get 5.1 >>channel sound output and be able to record. You just might not be able >>to select all the different combinations of sound in/out jacks. >> >>Cheers >>James >> > > Hi, > > it would be cool. just another question before i go to buy: does the > ac97 code support hw multiplexing aka multiple playing for the alc650 > dsp? > > thanks > The alc650/alc655 do not support hw multiplexing and can only be opened once. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf