OK, here is -xvv for that controller. 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4511 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00: 06 11 59 30 01 00 10 02 30 00 01 04 00 00 00 00 10: 01 ec 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 11 11 45 30: 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 03 00 00
and here is the -nvv 00:11.5 Class 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 30) Subsystem: 1106:4511 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- When I was using it, a stereo sample did play on both channels, from the cd, from pcm, they were mono -- I didn't test with stereo for the pcm. Is this sound card a multi channel and if so, how do I use more than one channel? on Thursday 06/27/2002 Takashi Iwai([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > At Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:44:58 -0400, > John covici wrote: > > > > Here is what I get from the lspci -- I don't think that the via8233 > > is multi-channel at all and I didn't see any controls to utilize such > > a thing in my asound.state file. > > in fact via8233 has capability to output up to 6 channels (and spdif), > although most of motherboards have only two output channels. > > the difference is only the implementation of the driver, so no change > will appear on /etc/asound.state. > the channels are configured dynamically according to the requested > channels of pcm. > > > > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio > > Controller (rev 30) > > > > I can send you the verbose version if that would help. > > > > yes, could you get more detailed info with -xvv and -nvv options? > > and, please recheck under which condition this happens, > whether with the stereo samples or with the mono samples, or > whatever. > > i can revert the codes only for certain chip models. > since via8233 has _only_ multi-channel playback mode, it must use > this. but other chip models have another mode, which was used by the > old driver. this can be enabled conditionally by checking the chip > revision number. > > > Takashi -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel