From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267957AbUIJWKp (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267971AbUIJWKp (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:10:45 -0400 Received: from open.hands.com ([195.224.53.39]:27789 "EHLO open.hands.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267957AbUIJWKn (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:10:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:21:55 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: CMedia CM9739 - sneaked in via some cheap via motherboards Message-ID: <20040910222155.GA19158@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-hands-com-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org okay. some of the cheapest and yet not nastiest motherboards are beginning to become available, in the UK for £12 (KM400 chipsets) www.ebuyer.com. some of these contain CMedia CM9739 sound chips which are _supposed_ to be AC97. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0302.3/1283.html ... except the present (2.6.7) kernel code doesn't work. it _almost_ works - it just doesn't recognise the PCM slider. alsamixer can't set PCM kmix and kamix don't even _show_ PCM. which ain't much cop, really, cos no PCM means "no sound matey". so! with these chipsets likely to become more prevalent (trust me on this) and CMedia having an OSS AC97 driver [which according to above by alan differs from the linux one]... ... anyone want to have a go at helping me get this to work, at proxy? if so, what sort of information should i provide? i can get lspci's, listings of /proc/asound contents, i'm even reasonably incompetent (viz. "not enough fear") at hacking bits of kernel code. -- -- Truth, honesty and respect are rare commodities that all spring from the same well: Love. If you love yourself and everyone and everything around you, funnily and coincidentally enough, life gets a lot better. -- lkcl.net
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