From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Broken nforce3 support in ALSA on amd64? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:43:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1109468746.11523.20.camel@colgate3.iforde.net> <1110225967.935.12.camel@mindpipe> <1110244309.1183.25.camel@mindpipe> <1110260716.7958.1.camel@colgate3.iforde.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <1110260716.7958.1.camel@colgate3.iforde.net> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ian Forde Cc: Lee Revell , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:45:16 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 21:17 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > At Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:06:05 -0500, > > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > IMO, the reverse-engineering is not the first thing to do. > > > The h/w vendors don't want to open their specs -- unless the manager > > > realizes that many users want it in the world. So, crying out loudly > > > to the h/w vendors would be the first. I don't think it's been done > > > quite enough yet in this case. AFAIK, Nvidia guys don't know that the > > > problem exists at all. > > > > > > > Good point. Although Nvidia's position on opening their drivers is well > > known, their engineers have definitely helped open source developers > > before. Someone should really ask them, and post the results here. > > Hmm... would the downloads at > > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=alc850 > > help any? The first file listed is a datasheet for the alc850. The > second contains a diagram... nForce seems to route the SPDIF not through AC97 but directly to the transmitter. So, tuning AC97 registers will unlikely help. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click