[alsa-devel] no front speaker sound with ALC262

[Rene Dohmen]

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 
>
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