[alsa-devel] snd-hda-intel (Cirrus Logic CS4206): MacBookPro6, 2 : No S/PDIF with Linux 2.6.36C

[Mohammad Bahathir Hashim]

On 2010-10-26, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Mohammad Bahathir Hashim at 26/10/10 06:08 did gyre
> and gimble:
>> Hi,
>> I want to use MacBook Pro (6,2) Mid-2010 15" with GNU/Linux all the time.
>> IMHO, GNU/Linux provides me the best performance and flexibility for
>> audio and video. 
>> 
>> Problem 1:
>> No SPDIF when using Linux 2.6.36, but it working fine with 2.6.35
>> 
>> Problem  2 ? :
>> xFront Speaker -> controls the woofer sound level
>> Surround -> controls the left and right channel speakers' sound level.
>> 
>> Both kernels 2.6.3[56] show the same problem/feature :). 
>
>
> My guess at the fix:
>
> ALSA: hda - Fix wrong SPDIF NID assignment for CA0110
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git;a=commit;h=24b55c69b66eb2a122842820ec14ab215fc8572f
>
> (the base64 encoding of your alsa-info attachment didn't come through in
> a friendly way so I didn't bother decoding it, and hence this is just a
> guess)
>
> Col
>



Sorry for the inconviences.

2.6.36 + Takashi Iwai's recent intel-hda patches which I found in this group.
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b999d5cb69d36c83544235039d502c61e66b7794

2.6.35
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=cf38000305da6b77fb388c83bb7386b74b96f61f