[alsa-devel] spdif/iec958 outputs at VT1708S not recognized

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 08 May 2009 11:21:54 +0200,
Peter Niemayer wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
>  > Could you try the patch below?  It's against the latest sound git tree,
>  > but likely applicable to a bit older one, too.
> 
>  > diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c
> 
> Your patch to patch_via.c was applicable (with a little manual
> help from my side) to the 2.6.29 sources, but it seems to depend on
> an earlier git commit of yours regarding multi-digital-out support,
> and that patch (which I found in a git browser on the web) is
> not applicable to the 2.6.29 sources, there are lots of rejections.
> 
> Is there a way to pull just the sound/pci/hda subdirectory from
> your repository (without cloning the whole 150MB repository)?
> Or can you just mail me a .tar.bz2 of the relevant kernel source
> subdirectory?

In that case, you can build ALSA modules externally from alsa-driver
tarball.  Grab the snapshot version from
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz


Takashi