[alsa-devel] help with idt 92hd206 codec for intel hda?

[Nathan Schulte]

Well, when I first installed my distro, I managed to get the spdif to output
2 channels. I could only get two channels, unless i sent a raw DTS or AC3
stream for decoding on the receiver end.

Now, on after I reinstalled (changed from raid0 to raid5), I cannot get any
audio whatsoever (even via analog outs).

So there are really two separate issues now.

1) Getting audio to work.
2) Getting 6+ Channel audio via spdif.

Should I try applying these patches or should I try compiling ALSA by hand
instead of using the distro supplied package?

Also, after looking at the sigmatel patch for hda-intel, the 92xx chips are
limited to two channels via spdif... On my first install, I changed the
limit, and recompiled by hand. ALSA would then tell me that 6 channels was
ok, as opposed to throwing an error, yet I still only got two channels.

Ideas?

-Nate

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Tellman, Steven <Steven.Tellman at idt.com>
wrote:

>  Are you having issues with that board? The 92HD202 has the same ID as the
> STAC9221.
>
>
>
> IDT *PC Audio* Marketing Engineer/Linux Manager
>
> W: (512) 330-3127
>
>
>
> *From:* Nathan Schulte [mailto:reklipz at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:02 PM
> *To:* Takashi Iwai
> *Cc:* Greg Zornetzer; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org; Tellman, Steven;
> Matthew Ranostay
> *Subject:* Re: [alsa-devel] help with idt 92hd206 codec for intel hda?
>
>
>
> I recently purchased an ECS A740GM-M Motherboard which has also an IDT
> 92HD202 integrated audio chipset.
>
> ALSA is recognizing it as a SigmaTel 9221 A2.
>
> I'm willing to test these patches as well as give any information you guys
> might need.
>
> -Nate
>
> (sorry for any duplicate messages, I'm still trying to get hold of how
> this listing thing works...)
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>
> At Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:48:53 +0200,
>
> I wrote:
> >
> > At Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:38:19 -0500,
> > Greg Zornetzer wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I recently acquired an ECS GF7100PVT-M3 motherboard, which appears to
> use
> > > the IDT 92HD206 codec for HDA.  Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to
> have
> > > full support under ALSA.  It gets detected as another Sigmatel chip.
>  Analog
> > > stereo output appears to work, but the mixer doesn't find any of the
> normal
> > > inputs.
> > >
> > > I found the tech specs for the chip at
> > > http://www.idt.com/products/getDoc.cfm?docID=13461840
> > > I've attached an lspci output and the codec file to this email.  I'm
> not
> > > much of an driver hacker, but if someone could give me an idea of what
> needs
> > > to go into the patch_sigmatel.c file to make this thing work, I'd be
> willing
> > > to try.  I'm also more than willing to test out patches on my setup.
> >
> > The below is an entirely untested patch quickly made from the codec
> > information you posted.  Could you give it a try with the latest ALSA
> > HG version?
>
> Steven informed that this codec is compatible with STAC927x.
> So the revised patch below is dramatically shorter.  Try this one
> instead of the previous one.
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
>
> ---
>
> diff -r 19b486f73bd8 pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c
> --- a/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c  Fri Apr 25 14:25:04 2008 +0200
>
> +++ b/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c  Tue Apr 29 20:43:43 2008 +0200
> @@ -4289,6 +4289,8 @@
>
>        { .id = 0x83847635, .name = "STAC9250D", .patch = patch_stac925x },
>        { .id = 0x83847636, .name = "STAC9251", .patch = patch_stac925x },
>        { .id = 0x83847637, .name = "STAC9250D", .patch = patch_stac925x },
>
> +       { .id = 0x83847645, .name = "92HD206X", .patch = patch_stac927x },
> +       { .id = 0x83847646, .name = "92HD206D", .patch = patch_stac927x },
>
>        /* The following does not take into account .id=0x83847661 when
> subsys =
>         * 104D0C00 which is STAC9225s. Because of this, some SZ Notebooks
> are
>         * currently not fully supported.
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