From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:14:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:14:23 -0500 Received: from pop018pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.212]:7310 "EHLO pop018.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:14:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:23:15 +1100 From: Jonathan Thorpe To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: via82cxxx_audio on VT8235 Message-Id: <20030113162315.679f7392.wd.dev@verizon.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH LOGIN at pop018.verizon.net from [144.136.112.171] at Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:22:58 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings, I've been using an Asrock K7VT2 motherboard for the past few weeks which is based upon a VT8235 south bridge and KT266 north bridge chipset. The VT8235 is attached to a VT1612A 2-channel AC97 codec which works very well with Alan's recent updates to the via82cxxx_audio driver (and in particular with the later of the 2.4.21-preX releases which allow more applications to work with the chip - I've tested MPlayer and Ogle to work well). The ALSA driver has been shocking with these chipsets, in particular the 2 channel chip which appears to be accepting data, but doesn't produce any audio (turning up the speakers to max will allow you to hear the sound fiently). There are however two minor problems that I'm having with this chip that I thought I'd let you know about. The first is the fact that ESound hangs (even the very latest version) when it is loaded, something that hasn't occured before; this problem has been seen on a variety of codecs attached to the VT8235 (including the VT1616, a 6 channel codec found on a few Epox and VIA Epia-M Boards). Is there anything that ESound does that would cause a problem with this particular driver? The second problem I'm having is exclusive to the VT1612A (2 channel) and is very minor; the Master Volume does not do anything at all, however there's an additional "PCM2" volume control which behaves exactly as the Master Volume should. What would be involved with solving this problem? The output of lspci for the VT1612A chipset is: -- 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4161 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-