Re: [Alsa-user] AC3 passthru status

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Brian L Scipioni wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 07:25, The Orqwith Vagrant wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:09 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>
>>>Summary:
>>>
>>>
>>>Philip Langdale:
>>>1) lspci -vn | grep -1 0401
>>>00:09.0 Class 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 04)
>>>         Subsystem: 1102:2002
>>>2) Works with special DSP patch together with new Audigy2.conf file.
>>>3) SB0350
>>>
>>>The Orqwith Vagrant:
>>>1) 02:06.0 Class 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 04)
>>>         Subsystem: 1102:1002
>>>2) Neither Audigy2.conf or DSP patch works for AC3.
>>>3) SB0240P
>>>
>>>My Audigy Pro 4:
>>>1) 0000:03:06.0 Class 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 04)
>>>         Subsystem: 1102:2007
>>>2) Audigy2.conf without DSP patch.
>>>3) SB0380
>>>
>>>My Audigy 2:
>>>1) 0000:03:05.0 Class 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 04)
>>>         Subsystem: 1102:1007
>>>2) Works with special DSP patch together with new Audigy2.conf file.
>>>3) SB0240
>>>
>>>
>>>So, we have it fixed for 2 cards at least now.
>>>Just "The Orqwith Vagrant" to go. I don't know what to do to fix this 
>>>one, because there is nothing else left to try.
>>>
>>>I will concentrate on getting the fix for Philip Langdale into CVS first.
>>
>>Good news - I got it to work for me as well. What I did was to make sure
>>all traces of any previous alsa driver tinkering was cleaned out, to
>>power off the computer, powered back on. I then used the patch against
>>the standard 1.0.8 driver release (it was a small patch and didn't touch
>>any of the other Audigy changes that's been occuring in cvs, so i wanted
>>to make sure there wasn't any interference with the spdif-rate patches
>>or whatever). Applied cleanly with an offset. Loaded the driver, tried
>>an ac3dec -C... and voila, SOUND! As does mplayer with -ac hwac3 and -ac
>>hwdts...
>>
>>I'll keep tinkering to try and ascertain exactly why it didn't work
>>yesterday when I tried it with the cvs alsa release. One thing that came
>>to mind is that my spdif rate might still have been set to 96000 ever
>>since I was testing out the spdif rate patches. I can imagine that would
>>have messed things up.
>>
>>In any case, this AC3 fix DOES work for me as well now, and I just want
>>to state, resoundingly:
>>
>>James, you RULE!
>>
>>:)
> 
> I just blew 1.0.8 away for 1.0.9rc1.  Again, which should I patch, CVS,
> 1.0.8 or 9rc1?
> 

The patch should work with all of them.