Re: [Alsa-user] Problem with ASUSP4PE / AD1980 onboard sound

[Andreas <an...@ne...>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:59:01AM +0100, Markus Stipp wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have some strange problems with the ASUS P4PE onboard sound. I'm using
> ALSA 0.9.x and the sound works. The problem is that it's not coming out of the
> line-out plug but it's coming out of the microphone plug.

I see this too, but with the OSS module that comes standard with the kernel
(currently I'm using 2.4.21pre5).

> The BIOS POST voice messages and the Windows drivers use the right line-out
> plug. Only under linux the sound comes out of the microphone plug.

Same here. From the motherboard's manual, I can see that the windows driver
can sort of "drive" these plugs, so that in stereo mode, for example, only
one is output; in quad-stereo mode, two become outputs, and in 5.1 mode all
three plugs are outputs. I guess OSS (and alsa, in your case), is just
driving the wrong plug.

Whith this same motherboard, though, I can't make alsa-0.9.1 work. From the app
point of view everything is ok, xmms thinks it's playing, but I can't hear
anything. I have already played with alsamixer but to no avail.
BUT: if, with xmms, I enable what it calls "surround speakers", then sound
comes out from one of the plugs. So, I guess, again some kind of "routing"
but.