[alsa-devel] 5.1 surround on 3 jacks (retasking)

[Raymond Yau]

2010/8/26 Keith Chew <keith.chew at gmail.com>

> Hi
>
> I have a small-form factor PC (KingYoung brand, model S645), which has
> 3 jacks connected to a Realtek ALC888 chipset. I have confirmed with
> the manufacturers the pin outs:
> 1) The front panel left side phone jack : Codec Line2-L & Line2-R (pin
> 14 & pin 15)
> 2) The front panel right side phone jack : Codec Mic2-L & Mic2-R (pin
> 16 & pin 17)
> 3) The back panel phone jack : Codec Front-L & Front-R (pin 35 & pin 36)
>
> I would like to update patch_realtek.c in alsa-drivers, to output 5.1
> surround using these 3 jacks.
>
> Can someone give me some guidance on how I can do this? I have looked
> and studied patch_realtek as much as I can, I just need some help in
> getting started.
>
> Regards
> Keith
>

The easy way is try those [ALC888_xxx] models with alc88x_3st_6ch_mixer