[linux-audio-dev] ALSA features.

James Courtier-Dutton James at superbug.co.uk
Sun Sep 4 09:50:51 UTC 2005


Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 00:18 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
>>Lee Revell wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 12:35 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Any other suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>>A "Swap Front and Rear" control for the emu10k1.
>>>
>>>Lee
>>>
>>
>>What is the reason for this need?
>>Do some emu10k1 cards have the outputs swapped so they appear wrong?
>>If it is due to hardware differences, we could make allowances in the 
>>driver and not need a "swap ..." control.
> 
> 
> The I2S codec used for the rear channels is of much higher quality than
> the AC97 codec used for front and center/LFE.
> 
> It's in the kX driver FAQ.
> 
> Lee
> 

Can you please post the output of:
lspci -vvn | grep -1 0401

What you say above is certainly not valid for all SB Live, Audigy and 
Audigy 2 sound cards. The snd-emu10k1 driver works for all those.

On all the Audigy 2's I have seen, it uses I2S for all outputs.

James



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