From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Is there plans to support SiS7019? Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:10:53 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <1709.192.168.0.30.1092440735.squirrel@dev.datamax.co.in> <3524.192.168.0.30.1092454251.squirrel@dev.datamax.co.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3524.192.168.0.30.1092454251.squirrel@dev.datamax.co.in> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Vrihad Shoonya Cc: Clemens Ladisch , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:00:51 +0530 (IST), Vrihad Shoonya wrote: > > > > You can try to go into the alsa-kernel/pci/trident directory and > > replace all occurrences of 7018 with 7019 (70 lines in three files). > > If the driver works with your card after recompiling, it is similar. > > > >> I have specs for this particular hardware. > > > > published anywhere? > We obtained it from SiS. Since they have stopped development on this > driver, they have agreed to provide the details to third parties for > fixing the problems. Their driver is OSS based, though. > > >> As I understand this chip supports six channel audio. > > > > If it's an AC'97 controller then we should look at the intel8x0 > > instead ... > It is an AC'97 controller. Under OSS, SiS supplied driver was stacked > over modules soundcore and ac97_codec. Now does the scope of work > change? Will it be easy to modify intel8x0 to work with it? Since > I have not done this stuff before, can you please point out the > right path? The question is whether SIS7019 is an AC97 chip, or it's the one to control other AC97 chips. If it's former, you should have another PCI entry for the controller (check lspci). In the latter case, you can try snd-trident module with changes of pci id table from SIS7018 to SIS7019. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285