[alsa-devel] Trying to get unsupported CODEC to work

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:54:25 -0600,
Alex Austin wrote:
> 
> Shoot. The DAE-3 is a controller for a 5-CH Amplifier card driving speakers
> directly, but I still need the subwoofer output from the ALC888. I may be
> able to get by without the ALC using high-level inputs on the sub amp. Even
> without it, what do I need to do to enable the DAE-3? I'm comfortable in C,
> but I don't know ALSA much, if at all, yet.

The codec parser isn't present for DAE-3, and the generic parser
obviously doesn't work for it.  So, you need to create a new codec
parser such as other patch_*.c.


Takashi

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:28:28 -0600,
> > Alex Austin wrote:
> > >
> > > HelloI have an MSI Media Live DIVA motherboard. It has an AMD SB600 HD
> > Audio
> > > controller, and two CODECs on the HDA bus.
> > >
> > > First is an ALC888
> > > Second is an Intersil DAE-3.
> >
> > The analog outputs on both codecs are really used at the same time?
> > Then it doesn't work right now.  Simply "not implemented".  And no
> > concrete plan to fix it yet.  This might require a fundamental
> > re-design.
> >
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> > >
> > > Two alsa-info outputs in different circumstances
> > >
> > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=20c86e755fdbbdbc8761c8c2f4de76bce2ea0c11
> > >
> > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=15c5e5eab0104622a84b2dd0df03f26c17c7242d
> > >
> > > Output of codecgraph with "modprobe hda-intel probe_mask=2"
> > > http://pastebin.com/f54b6a9b8
> > >
> > > What's the next step to get this supported?
> > > --
> > > - Alex Austin
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> > >
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> - Alex Austin
> (651) 238-9273
> 
> "...and then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur."
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