[alsa-devel] intel-hd on an intel G33 motherboard

[Tobin Davis]

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 21:30 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Dec 26, 2007 7:47 PM, Tobin Davis <tdavis at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> > Ok, the second codec is the HDMI port.  For some reason, it is getting
> > assigned to be primary sound device.  Try "alsamixer -D hw:1.0" to see
> > if it can control the realtek device.
> >
> > Oddly enough, I used to work at Intel as a contractor, developing audio
> > drivers for their boards.  They stopped supporting Linux when my
> > contract ended.
> 
> Just curious - is there really anything Intel could do at this point
> to improve the snd-hda-intel situation?  My impression is that their
> decision to architect the thing such that every vendor can wire things
> up their own way (or "add value" in marketing speak) is the root of
> the support nightmare that these devices are.
> 
> It seems that the only way to improve things would be to either get
> every single PC vendor to help, or make the pin configs settable from
> userspace and develop a tool to translate from the vendor provided
> Windows .inf files.
> 
> Do I grok the situation correctly?

Close.  Actually, the snd-hda-intel protocol is something that Intel &
Microsoft cobbled together.  Ideally, there would be a general purpose
driver for the audio bus, and a user space application that would
configure it.  Takashi, myself, and a couple of other developers are
exploring this method currently, but with the major influx of new
systems, it's been hard to keep up and develop a new api.  We hope to
get into a beta for 2.6.26 kernel release.  Keep watching the email
threads.
-- 
Tobin Davis <tdavis at dsl-only.net>