26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
1:05 p.m.
a) It looks like the Hammerfall driver doesn't have
a mixer interface, is
this correct ?
the hardware has no mixer.
b) It looks like the onboard audio chip is controlled
by an OSS driver, it
doesn't show up in the alsa drivers either, which is fine by me, since I'm
not going to use it. Is there any problem with OSS modules being loaded
at the same time as ALSA modules ?
shouldn't be a problem.
c) I bought the card so I could record optical S/PDIF.
The manual says I
need to tell the card that I want the ADAT1 Input source to be Optical
S/PDIF.
[ ... ]
Which I read as the Input source being ADAT optical
instead of S/PDIF.
How do I set it to S/PDIF ?
there are a couple of ways. alsactl is probably the most obvious:
% alsactl -f foo store
... edit "foo" ...
% alsactl -f foo restore
in the file "foo" generated by the first step, you will find lots of
stuff, including this:
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.item.0 ADAT1
comment.item.1 Coaxial
comment.item.2 Internal
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Input Connector'
value Coaxial
}
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Output also on ADAT1'
value false
}
You will want yours to look like this:
control.5 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type ENUMERATED
comment.item.0 ADAT1
comment.item.1 Coaxial
comment.item.2 Internal
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Input Connector'
value ADAT1
}
control.6 {
comment.access 'read write'
comment.type BOOLEAN
iface PCM
name 'IEC958 Output also on ADAT1'
value true
}
which will then do S/PDIF I/O over the ADAT1 connector.
using amixer is quicker but terser and you have to know/understand a
bit more to use it confidently.
d) the card came with a sub-D-connector that connects
to the card's 15 pin
port, which branches off two RCA jacks. I don't suppose these RCA jacks
provide an analogue output by any chance on which I can monitor for sound
?
no, they are for co-axial S/PDIF output. there is no analog I/O of any
kind on this card.
--p (hammerfall driver author and happy owner of 4 of them :)