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From: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] sound blaster name
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:01:12 +0200
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To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, alsa-devel <alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> matthieu castet wrote:
> 
>>Lee Revell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:19 +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I there an easy way to know if the .sblive51 flag is needed ?
>>>>Does it is needed only for 3G SB card  (SBxxx version or those marked
>>>>as 5.1) ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I think it's need for any SBLive! (not Audigy) that has an analog
>>>center/LFE output.
>>>
>>>Maybe you could extract this information from the kX driver.
>>>
>>
>>on opencreative driver they use :
>>
>>* 5.1: Enable the additional AC97 Slots and unmute extra channels on
>>AC97 codec */
>>                if (codec->codec_read(codec, AC97_EXTENDED_ID) & 0x0080){
>>                        printk(KERN_INFO "emu10k1: SBLive! 5.1 card
>>detected\n");
>>                        sblive_writeptr(card, AC97SLOT, 0, AC97SLOT_CNTR
>>| AC97SLOT_LFE);
>>                        codec->codec_write(codec, AC97_SURROUND_MASTER,
>>0x0);
>>                }
>>
>>It correspond to AC97_EA_SDAC.
>>I don't know if it is a safe way...
>>
>>
>>Matthieu
>>
> 
> 
> It is not a safe way of detecting it.
> The approach I am going to take is mark each entry in the source code as
> tested and the email address of someone with the card.
> Then, over time we will have eventually tested all of them and also have
> a contact email address if it needs retesting.
ok, for CT4670 you could remove the flag and add my email adress.

Matthieu


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