Re: alsa on 2.6 kernels, spdif patch

Several people have reported on the gentoo-xbox list that digital
sound works. The alsa xbox flag has existed in cvs for a while (see
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=221 ) but I
don't know which releases have had it.


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:19:38 -0000 (GMT), David Pye
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Quoting David Pye <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> On Tuesday 16 November 2004 14:48, Ilkka Urtamo wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> Is there later xbox patch for spdif for intel8x0 driver for spdif
> >>> than one in CVS?
> >>
> >> No, or if there is, someone is holding onto it very tightly.
> >
> > You don't need any patches for the latest (v1.07?) alsa drivers, just
> > add a line:
> >
> > options snd-intel8x0 xbox=1
> >
> > to your /etc/modules.conf
> >
> > Tim
> 
> The latest I can find is 1.0.5.
> 
> You are sure that that is all that is required to enable S/PDIF output,
> and that it is integrated into ALSA upstream?
> If that's the case, it's been an INCREDIBLY well kept secret, as S/PDIF
> output does not work out of the box on Xebian, and ShALLaX (Mr GentooX)
> said that he is not aware of any s/pdif solution for newer ALSAs either.
> I'm also a little skeptical (excuse me for being so) as:
> 
> dmp@platinum:/tmp/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.5$ find | xargs grep xbox
> dmp@platinum:/tmp/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.5$
> 
> on a vanilla ALSA tree returns no matches, which isn't what I would have
> expected, as there needs to be an entry in the driver listing the options
> it accepts.
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
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