[alsa-devel] VIA HDA patch problem (was [PATCH 17/31] HDA patch_via.c: Add second S/PDIF out control for VT1708S and VT1702.)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:48:01 -0600,
Robert Hancock wrote:
> 
> It looks like there's some problem somewhere in the patch set posted
> on Oct. 7th that wasn't in the original patch set from the 5th: I
> can't open the mixer for the HDA device:
> 
> alsamixer -c 1
> cannot load mixer controls: Operation not permitted

Likely the secondary SPDIF patch:
 [PATCH 17/30] ALSA: HDA VIA: Add 2nd S/PDIF out for VT1708S and VT1702.

Could you try to revert this?


Takashi


> 
> >From strace:
> 
> open("/dev/snd/controlC1", O_RDWR)      = 3
> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_CONTROL, 0x7fff338e57fc) = 0
> fcntl(3, F_GETFL)                       = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
> fcntl(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE, 0x7fff338e5990) = 0
> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE, 0x7fff338e5990) = 0
> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO, 0x7fff338e5670) = 0
> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_IOCTL, 0x7fff338e4ea0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
> 
> Presumably something is creating a control that isn't readable, or
> writable or something, and this is causing the mixer to fail to load?
> 
> Also, with regard to the SPDIF problem I'm seeing on my Asus P7P55D
> (VT1828S), I was able to dig up a little bit more info: by using
> hda_analyzer to set the ENABLE flag on the Digital Converter, I was
> able to get the optical SPDIF port to light up and my receiver
> indicates PCM input. Unfortunately there's still no actual audio
> coming through on the receiver, just silence. However, obviously that
> ENABLE flag is going to have to get set somehow to have any hope of
> SPDIF working, and currently it seems like it's not..
>