Bug#245668: kernel-source-2.6.5: intel8x0: IEC958 output not working anymore

[Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>]

Hi,

sorry for the delay.

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:42, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Please show me the contents of /proc/asound.

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ernie@atari:~$ ls -l /proc/asound/*
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59
/proc/asound/cards
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59
/proc/asound/devices
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            5 2004-07-07 22:59
/proc/asound/I82801D
BICH4 -> card0
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59
/proc/asound/modules
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59
/proc/asound/pcm
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59
/proc/asound/timers
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59
/proc/asound/version

/proc/asound/card0:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 codec97#0
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 id
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 intel8x0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 oss_mixer
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 pcm0c
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 pcm0p
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 pcm1c
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 pcm2c
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 pcm3c
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 pcm4p

/proc/asound/oss:
total 0
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 devices
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 sndstat

/proc/asound/seq:
total 0
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-07-07 22:59 drivers
ernie@atari:~$
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> > When using the OSS emulation of ALSA, it works (but with both of them
> > not the digital output).
> 
> OK.  There were changes between 2.6.4 and 2.6.5 in that area.
> 
> I was going to build a module with the code from 2.6.4 for you but
> since the pre-built kernel doesn't work at all for you, you'll have
> to do this yourself.
> 
> So please compile 2.6.5 or 2.6.6 with the snd-intel8x0.c from 2.6.4
> and see if that works.  Please reboot into 2.6.4 to make sure that
> it still works of course.

This file doesn't exist in the kernel source trees in question. But I
tried something similar and noticed that back-and-forth porting isn't
that easy due to incompatible changes in the interfaces between the
different source files.

The problem persists for 2.6.7.

bye,
  Roland