Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] snd-atiixp - ATI SoundMAX
From: Mark Knecht (mknecht_AT_controlnet.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 19:04:38 EEST
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> The SoundMax chips are indeed AC'97 codecs (from Analog Devices), but
> the driver to use depends on the AC'97 controller. Currently, there
> are three types of controllers built into motherboard chipsets; the
> drivers for these are snd-intel8x0, snd-via82xx, and snd-atiixp.
OK, making sense.
>
>
>>>>dyne:bolic boots and brings up Alsa running something called
>>>>snd-atiixp, and lspci showing a bunch of ATI chips,
>
>
> In this case, snd-atiixp is correct.
OK, making more sense.
>
>
>>>>but looking on the Alsa page I'm not finding ATI.
>
>
> The entry hasn't been written yet, but this driver doesn't need any
> special configuration. Just look at the intel8x0 entry and replace
> the module name with snd-atiixp.
Makes the most sense!
>
>
> HTH
> Clemens
>
Helps a lot! For Gentoo on this laptop I used ALSA_CARDS="atiixp". The
driver built fine first time, is installed and both the built-in
speakers and the headphone jack are working now using alsaplayer to play
a CD. alsamixer correctly sets volume independently on each.
Thanks for your help!
Cheers,
Mark
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