Re: ac3 problems with the latest VIA8233 driver

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi,

At Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:48:56 +0200,
Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> 
> Hiya
> 
> I tried out the latest cvs snapshot of the via82xx driver. I have a Asus
> A7V8X motherboard, and the chip gets detected as a VIA8233C by alsa.
> 
> Everything else seems to be ok, but ac3 passthrough which used to work, 
> doesn't anymore. In one attempt with the new driver, my amplifier complained 
> of "DATA ERROR" on the screen (instead of turning on the dolby digital light
> and playing)
 
oh, i didn't know that ac3 has ever worked on this chip :)

> Previously I used the following VIA8233.conf (I copied over the ICH conf, 
> did a search/replace for ICH -> VIA8233 and it just worked :) 
 
the new configuration file is already in alsa-lib cvs tree.
please get the latest alsa-lib cvs and install the config files.

the difference from the former version is that the new driver uses a
different channel for SPDIF and has a new mixer control.

i'm not sure whether the analog volumes have influence upon the spdif
digital levels.  anyway, please give a try.


ciao,

Takashi


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