[alsa-devel] no front speaker sound with ALC262

[Rene Dohmen]

Tobin,


Did you receive the unit?
I'm wondering if you had some progress already.

Greets,
Rene


Op Mar 31, 2008, om 3:30 PM heeft Tobin Davis het volgende geschreven:

> Yes, it would.  Hmmm
>
> Well, I hope they send the unit today.
>
> Tobin
>
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 13:57 +0200, Rene Dohmen wrote:
>>
>> with the preinstalled win XP the sound is working OK.
>> So that would rule out hardware problems with the soundcard.
>>
>>
>> Rene
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Op Mar 28, 2008, om 7:28 PM heeft Tobin Davis het volgende  
>> geschreven:
>>
>>> I'm still waiting for my demo unit from Tangent.  Latest update  
>>> is they think it may be a hardware issue (missing a resistor).  I  
>>> should know more Monday.  If this is the case, then the driver  
>>> should work with very minor modifications (subsystem ID addition).
>>>
>>> Tobin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:40 +0100, Rene Dohmen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Op Mar 22, 2008, om 8:09 PM heeft Tobin Davis het volgende  
>>>> geschreven:
>>>>
>>>>> Rene, don't bother bugging Tangent.  I have a demo unit on the  
>>>>> way.  My first priority is getting the driver working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tangent really won't help much - their a distributor, not the  
>>>>> OEM.  This is an MSI Crystal 945 in a Tangent shell.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I know that the system is actually a Crystal 945. I got the  
>>>> touchscreen working via a dev driver from salt (so not tangent)
>>>> On the mainboard there is a conenctor: JFP1that goes to the  
>>>> ms4088 board. The mainboard connects to:
>>>> - power led
>>>> - hdd led
>>>> - speakers
>>>> - main power switch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can provide you with some photoos if you like.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As stated earlier: the sound is working by with very low volume  
>>>> levels
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> If you want to try something, see if the bios can be reflashed  
>>>>> with the Crystal 945 firmware.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I sound working with the original crystal? I don't think tangent  
>>>> has flshed their BIOS to another version.
>>>> In the crystal 945 specs I found that the're using a Realtek  
>>>> ALC262 with azalia codec, maybe this helps.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rene
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> As to the speaker board, where on the main board is it  
>>>>> mounted?  Is the header labeled?  How many pins?  It sounds  
>>>>> like the speakers may be on the front panel header, which would  
>>>>> make them function like headphones.  Or this board is custom  
>>>>> build for this application and I don't know what I'm talking  
>>>>> about.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tobin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:59 +0100, Rene Dohmen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm glad t o read that there are other people with the same  
>>>>>> problem
>>>>>> on the same system.
>>>>>> I just opened my Tangent 8000S and it has indeed a MSI mainboard:
>>>>>> MS7290. The speakers are connected to a small custom board:  
>>>>>> MS-4088
>>>>>> There's no extra chip on this customboard and the board is  
>>>>>> directly
>>>>>> connected to the mainboard. So probably the signal leaving the
>>>>>> mainboard in amplified already. (or there's a amplifier  
>>>>>> builtin the
>>>>>> speakers)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Next week i'll have some time to put tangent under some more  
>>>>>> pressure
>>>>>> for info, so maybe that will speed up things a little bit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Grz Rene
>>>>>>
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>>>>> -- Tobin Davis 
>>>>>
>>>>> love, n.:
>>>>> 	When you don't want someone too close--because you're very  
>>>>> sensitive
>>>>> 	to pleasure.
>>>>
>>> -- Tobin Davis 
>>>
>>> I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
>>> 		-- Jay Gould
>>
>>
> -- Tobin Davis 
>
> He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.