At Tue, 2 May 2006 21:20:59 -0700, Big Wave Dave wrote: > > All, > > First... I'm a newbie to the list... sorry if I'm not following proper > protocol. I CAN be taught. > > I have a Diamond Multimedia Monster Sound MX400 soundcard. It runs > great with the automatically chosen snd-es1968 driver. This is also > the driver suggested on the ALSA Soundcard Matrix. > > The problem... > This card has a coax/RCA SPDIF connector. I have used this for > passing AC3/DD/DTS sound via Windows drivers... but am unable to > figure out how to get Linux to recognize it exists. In my google > research I've found references to "IEC958" settings for ALSA. It > seems to be typical to see this within alsamixer. Unfortunately I am > not seeing this in my alsa mixer!? It is probably not relevant, but I > think it is interesting the driver is "es1968", but lspci shows it is > a "es1978". Perhaps this was a slight variation of the chipset, to > provide SPDIF support? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Unfortunately there is almost no hope for supporting SPDIF on this chip. We have no technical information and ESS is no longer interested in the audio area at all. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
