[alsa-devel] Asus P5QL-EM motherboard (ALC1200 codec) - no sound through S/PDIF

[Andrei Tanas]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:02:16 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>> My /dev/snd only has these:
>> controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1c  pcmC0D1p  pcmC0D2c  timer
>> Should there be hw* nodes?
> 
> Build with CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y.

Ok, I can see them now.
So, as far as I understand I should be able to use hda-verb to manually
control the codec. Can you suggest what I should read to understand how to
do this, what commands are available etc. (I have ALC883 datasheet).