Re: CMedia CM9739 - sneaked in via some cheap via motherboards

From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Date: Sat Sep 11 2004 - 05:43:32 EST


On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:46:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-09-10 at 23:21, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > it _almost_ works - it just doesn't recognise the PCM slider.
> > alsamixer can't set PCM
> > kmix and kamix don't even _show_ PCM.
> >
> > which ain't much cop, really, cos no PCM means "no sound matey".
>
> If I remember rightly the PCM on these is mute only. We fixed that for
> OSS it may be it didnt get propogated into ALSA or this is some new
> horrible variant. What we don't have is a fast software volume control
> in OSS, dunno if ALSA has one.

oh dearie me, well this chip _is_ listed as an ac97->id == 0x434d4961
and no the sound ain't working.

i'm going to pretend it does have PCM, see what happens...

l.

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