Re: CS46xx 4 channel?

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:16:03 +0200 (MEST),
Friedrich.Ewaldt@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just found the following message at the vmlinuz mail archive:
> 
> *****************
> My sound card is a Hercules Fortissimo II (Cirrus Logic CrystalClear 
> SoundFusion Audio Accelerator CS4624).
> 
> The are three problems to be addressed:
> 
> 1. I am know using the kernel oss driver, and it works nice; except for 
> the mixer channel labeling. 'mixctlr' segfaults, but 
> 'gnome-volume-control' works fine. The problem is that the main volume 
> control controls the front speakers while the 'pcm' controls the main 
> volume and 'pcm2' the read speakers.
> 
> 2. The alsa driver only works in 2-channel mode. Does anyone here knows 
> an alsa guy and can forward the info the the kernel driver already 
> supports 4-channels?
> 
> 3. The headphones output does not work with either driver, even though 
> there is a control for it on the kernel drivers.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> getnito@yahoo.com
> ****************
> So, my quetion is:
> Is there a chance to get 4 channel output working on the cs4624 now?
> That would be great.

i've never heard that the kernel oss driver works with 4 speakers.
i know there is a work-in-progress driver but iirc, it's not on the
kernels yet.

anyway, it'd be appreciated if you know _which_ kernel driver and
where we can get it.


Takashi


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