Realtek ALC650E support in 2.[45]?
Trying to get an upgrade and have a choice between two MBs. Both have onboard sound and one has the ALC650 audio support and the other has ALC650E audio support. I believe the former is s/w and the latter is h/w. I'd like to get the ALC650E but I can't find any clear info if there's support for it in either the 2.4 or 2.5 linux kernels. I found mention of the ALC650 in the source but not the ALC650E. Searching the web did not yeild much clarity either (and neither did the ALSA website :/) but I may have missed something though.
Anyways, does it support it? I'd prefer fully OS driver support and don't mind using patches but prefer to be able to compile the driver into the kernel as I like the lack of messyness that comes with monolithic kernels.
Any help would be truly appreciated. Thanks.
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At Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:49:43 +1000,
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Trying to get an upgrade and have a choice between two MBs. Both have onboard sound and one has the ALC650 audio support and the other has ALC650E audio support. I believe the former is s/w and the latter is h/w. I'd like to get the ALC650E but I can't find any clear info if there's support for it in either the 2.4 or 2.5 linux kernels. I found mention of the ALC650 in the source but not the ALC650E. Searching the web did not yeild much clarity either (and neither did the ALSA website :/) but I may have missed something though.
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Anyways, does it support it? I'd prefer fully OS driver support and don't mind using patches but prefer to be able to compile the driver into the kernel as I like the lack of messyness that comes with monolithic kernels.
ALC650(E) is the AC97 codec chip. There must be an audio core in addition, most likely Intel ICH chips or VIA 82xx chips. Both are supported by ALSA, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via8xx drivers, respectively. On OSS, they are i810_audio and via82cxxx_audio drivers.
ALC650E is a revision E of ALC650, which has some minor extensions (like S/PDIF support) but mostly identical with ALC650. So both should work.
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At Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:49:43 +1000,
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Anyways, does it support it? I'd prefer fully OS driver support and don't mind using patches but prefer to be able to compile the driver into the kernel as I like the lack of messyness that comes with monolithic kernels.
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ALC650(E) is the AC97 codec chip. There must be an audio core in addition, most likely Intel ICH chips or VIA 82xx chips. Both are supported by ALSA, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via8xx drivers, respectively. On OSS, they are
i810_audioandvia82cxxx_audiodrivers.ALC650E is a revision E of ALC650, which has some minor extensions (like S/PDIF support) but mostly identical with ALC650. So both should work.
Aha. Ok. What about with an Nvidia2 backend (MCP-T) to all this?
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At Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:52:19 +1000,
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At Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:49:43 +1000,
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Anyways, does it support it? I'd prefer fully OS driver support and don't mind using patches but prefer to be able to compile the driver into the kernel as I like the lack of messyness that comes with monolithic kernels.
ALC650(E) is the AC97 codec chip. There must be an audio core in addition, most likely Intel ICH chips or VIA 82xx chips. Both are supported by ALSA, snd-intel8x0 and snd-via8xx drivers, respectively. On OSS, they are
i810_audioandvia82cxxx_audiodrivers.
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ALC650E is a revision E of ALC650, which has some minor extensions (like S/PDIF support) but mostly identical with ALC650. So both should work.
Aha. Ok. What about with an Nvidia2 backend (MCP-T) to all this?
it's (almost) compatible with Intel ICH and works with the recent intel driver above.
Takashi
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At Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:52:19 +1000,
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ALC650E is a revision E of ALC650, which has some minor extensions (like S/PDIF support) but mostly identical with ALC650. So both should work.
Aha. Ok. What about with an Nvidia2 backend (MCP-T) to all this?
it's (almost) compatible with Intel ICH and works with the recent intel driver above.
ALSA, right? What's in 2.5 or still outside of it? And if outside, soon to be added?
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