From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: rc2 stereo problem with via8233 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:38:02 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <15642.10186.820516.331246@ccs.covici.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <15642.10186.820516.331246@ccs.covici.com> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: covici@ccs.covici.com Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hi, At Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:44:58 -0400, John covici wrote: > > Here is what I get from the lspci -- I don't think that the via8233 > is multi-channel at all and I didn't see any controls to utilize such > a thing in my asound.state file. in fact via8233 has capability to output up to 6 channels (and spdif), although most of motherboards have only two output channels. the difference is only the implementation of the driver, so no change will appear on /etc/asound.state. the channels are configured dynamically according to the requested channels of pcm. > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio > Controller (rev 30) > > I can send you the verbose version if that would help. > yes, could you get more detailed info with -xvv and -nvv options? and, please recheck under which condition this happens, whether with the stereo samples or with the mono samples, or whatever. i can revert the codes only for certain chip models. since via8233 has _only_ multi-channel playback mode, it must use this. but other chip models have another mode, which was used by the old driver. this can be enabled conditionally by checking the chip revision number. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/