Re: module_init fails with OEM SoundBlaster Live!

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:46:34 +0000,
Peter Chapman wrote:
> 
> I have an SBLive! which came with a Dell Dimension PC. The snd-emu10k1
> module has been refusing to load ("EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or
> device busy"), however I found the following patch makes it work:

most likely your ac97 codec chip has the IEC958 control, which
conflicts with the native emu10k1's control.
please check /proc/asound/card0/ac97#0 (with your patch).


> Index: alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emumixer.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/alsa/alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emumixer.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.18
> diff -u -r1.18 emumixer.c
> --- alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emumixer.c	23 Oct 2003 14:34:53 -0000	1.18
> +++ alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emumixer.c	2 Nov 2003 11:23:13 -0000
> @@ -540,10 +540,6 @@
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		if ((err = snd_ctl_add(card, kctl)))
>  			return err;
> -		if ((kctl = snd_ctl_new1(&snd_emu10k1_spdif_control, emu)) == NULL)
> -			return -ENOMEM;
> -		if ((err = snd_ctl_add(card, kctl)))
> -			return err;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (emu->audigy) {
> 
> 
> By no coincidence I'm sure, I never got the spdif output on the card to
> work. Perhaps it's a cut-down OEM version? I noticed a DELL OEM entry in
> snd_emu10k1_ids[], but my card does not match that device id.

the one for DELL's board was addedd experimentally, but it got never
worked.  apparently it's totally different chip from emu10k1.


Takashi


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