rat
Robert Olson
olson at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Oct 11 15:33:54 CDT 2000
We're not using that driver tho. I'm still not confident about the
long-term stability of the OSS/Free drivers; there has been too much
flakiness with them that just doesn't occur with the commercial drivers.
Any audio hacking work I'd like to go toward making the ALSA solution viable.
--bob
At 03:30 PM 10/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I think George has sent (is sending?) /dev/sndstat etc. output.
>
>But just look at /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/es1371.c and you'll see what
>I mean.
>It says, e.g. around line 1480:
>
> /* SOUND_MIXER_RECLEV and SOUND_MIXER_IGAIN specify gain */
> case SOUND_MIXER_RECLEV:
> [[[ bunch of stuff involving wrcodec( ... ) ]]]
> wrcodec(s, AC97_RECORD_GAIN, (((l1 - 10) / 6) << 8) |
> ((r1 - 10) / 6));
> return 0;
>
> case SOUND_MIXER_IGAIN:
> if (!(s->mix.codec_id & CODEC_ID_DEDICATEDMIC))
> return -EINVAL;
> wrcodec(s, AC97_RECORD_GAIN_MIC, (l1 < 10) ? AC97_MUTE :
> ((l1 - 10) / 6) & 0xf);
> return 0;
>
>Apparently on our cards, codec_id & CODEC_ID_DEDICATEDMIC (which it seems
>to read from the
>hardware) is false, hence the EINVAL. Otherwise it treats IGAIN and
>RECLEV pretty similarly.
>And when we adjust the field called "Rec" in aumix, we get the desired effect.
>
>(es1371.c is relevant since it's the driver that gets used if we *don't*
>use the
>OSS-non-free drivers. And it seems to work, except for rat adjusting the
>loopback Line
>control rather than the desired Rec one. I.e. if we adjust levels
>manually with aumix,
>we hear normal sound.)
>
> Stuart
>
>I'm trying to build a hacked es1371.o which interprets IGAIN as the same
>as RECLEV
>if there's no DEDICATEDMIC. If I can just manage to build a kernel module
>that the
>red hat versioning system considers to be compatible with its own ... !:@*
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