[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Asus Essence STX II

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 03 Aug 2014 03:45:44 +0200,
corubba wrote:
> 
> Today I got my new sound card, a Asus Essence STX II. After plugin it in
> and booting my Linux machine, the card was recognized by lspci as audio
> controller, but not listed by alsa as soundcard. Information on support
> for this new card under linux are hard to find. Due to the hardware
> similarities between STX and STX II, I tried to modify the existing STX
> driver in order to work for the STX II too. And it seems to work quiet
> well: I have sound, can change the volumes, switch between
> speaker/headphone/frontpanel, enable the mic boost etc. I don't have the
> H6 childboard for surround sound, so I can't test that. I tested my
> patch [1] with a 3.15.8 kernel under Arch Linux.
> 
> Just wanted to share this information for others to get it quickly
> working, or maybe even include it after a review from the devs.
> 
> 
> [1] http://pastebin.com/GaGguPvt

If the device works as expected by just this addition, I find no
problem in the patch.  Please submit in the formal way as described in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches.


thanks,

Takashi