Hello,

I've got sound working on my laptop but there are two problems I'd like to solve. One is the volume is kind of low. Not so low I'm positive something is wrong, but it seems like it isn't right. Second, and more interesting, is this laptop seems to digital audio output that goes over the HDMI connector. Or, I should say, in Windows XP (installing that was another adventure I would have preferred not to have done) The mixer has a control to enable S/PDIF output. I'm a (non-kernel) c++ developer by trade and I've got a local kernel tree from git and should be able to manage pulling the alsa git as well, so if some alsa person could guide me along in hacking the driver to help me try to get this working that would be great. I ran alsa-info.sh on my box, here's the URL:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=1b5a45d1336cee176dbd99e725a56f7ad4e20b42