[Alsa-user] About snd_hda_intel and nVidia MCP51 HDA

[Avuton O. <av...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm using alsa-driver 1.0.11rc1 and the card described below. I've
been looking at using the onboard audio so I can clear up another PCI
card for other use. There's no problems playing, but a few annoyances
maybe you could help me clear up.

1) Audio sounds very faint, maybe I'm used to my Sound Blaster Live!
but there seems to be no bass controls and if I had to guess the bass
is at -10. You have to be _trying_ to distinguish the bass, Is this a
limitiation of the hardware or software?

 This is the main annoyance keeping me from using this card, I didn't
realize how much I depended on bass for my music/games but it seems to
be a big deal.

2) Similar question: In my alsa mixer for playback controls I only
have PCM, Front, Front Mi, Surround, Center, LFE, Side, Line, CD, Mic,
IEC958, Input so(3)

  Isn't there supposed to be a master?

Thanks in advance for any answers here.

00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a=
2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device a102
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=3Dfast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D16K=
]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=3D0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=3D0 DScale=3D0 PME-
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
Queue=3D0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping


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