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Message-ID: <s5hy7cubv5o.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:34:43 +0100
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To: Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@....neu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: sb live (emu10k1) stops working between 2.6.23.1 and 2.6.23.7
At Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:18:29 -0500 (EST),
Jim Faulkner wrote:
>
>
> I've done some more testing this morning, and it appears that the "ALSA:
> emu10k1 - Fix memory corruption" patch from 2.6.23.6 has broken digital
> output on my SB Live Value card. Simply replacing the 2.6.23.7 emumixer.c
> with the version included in 2.6.23.1 I was able to get digital output
> working again under 2.6.23.7.
>
> This does not appear to be a simple matter of adjusting the alsa mixer to
> compsensate for how the mixer controls are exposed to userspace. I have
> duplicated all alsamixer settings between 2.6.23.1 and stock 2.6.23.7 in
> the "F5" view all controls mode, but still received no audio output. I
> also tried adjusting other volume controls which normally do not need
> adjusting, but got nowhere. It appears that the 2.6.23.6 emu10k1 patch
> broke digital output entirely on this card.
>
> Just to add to the information in my first message, the SB Live card is
> connected from the yellow jack on the card to the "Digital Coax Input"
> connector on my external amplifier.
It's no regression of the driver. The problem is just a wrong use of
alsactl in your init script. It should use -F option to ignore
unmatching elements, which is caused when a mixer element is removed
or renamed.
This problem doesn't happen so often (as we try to keep the
compatibility as much as possible), so I didn't realize some distros
still doing wrong for years.
Anyway, this won't be a problem in future since I changed the default
behavior of alsactl to with -F.
Takashi
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