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From: Pavel Hofman <pavel.hofman@ivitera.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH - ice1724 4/4] ALSA: ice1724 - Support for
 ooAoo SQ210a
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:59:50 +0100
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Dne 9.1.2012 10:24, Clemens Ladisch napsal(a):
> Pavel Hofman wrote:
>> Dne 8.1.2012 10:13, Takashi Iwai napsal(a):
>>> pavel.hofman@ivitera.com wrote:
>>>> This card shares PCI ids with Chaintec AV710. Therefore, it will not be
>>>> detected automatically, it can only be activated by the module parameter
>>>> model=sq210a.
>>>
>>> Hrm, that's bad.  Do you know any other way to identify the device?
>>
>> I am afraid I do not.
> 
> There is already a conflict with the AV710; it appears all three vendors
> use some default ID.
> 
>> Plus I would not be surprised if the other cards with different
>> accessories produced by that company shared all the same PCI ids and
>> differed just in EEPROM configs (most likely incorrect too :-) )
> 
> Their CMI8788-based cards implement only features that are a subset of
> those supported by the generic Windows driver.  (I guess they ship
> an .ini file that disables things like 7.1 output on a stereo card (thus
> breaking other models with the same ID), but it's possible that they
> just don't bother.)

They do seem not to bother much, they do not supply windows drivers for
this one at all, people should just use generic Envy24 drivers by VIA
:-) But the price is right.

> 
> Pavel, please don't forget to update the sound card matrix:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-%E5%82%B2%E7%8E%8B

Thanks for pointing out. I will add the latin "ooAoo" to the chinese
name, I had no idea the company was already listed in the matrix :)

Pavel.