[oss-devel] Solaris: Missing device addresses? CMI8788

Robert William Fuller hydrologiccycle at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 10:57:09 EEST 2008


Mario Goebbels wrote:
> I've a brand-new Asus Xonar XD here. It's a C-Media CMI8788 based device
> with custom DACs.
> 
> The thing doesn't work right now (actually, it worked once and the
> device nodes worked THEN, but now I can't for the life of me get it set
> up anymore). To my surprise however, I finally managed to get the OSS
> source code to build, should have used absolute paths for a change.
> 
> Anyway, things the basic CMI8788 driver needs right now is to handle the
> different DACs. The variant I have has a CS4398 for the main output and
> a CS4362A for the other channels. Having skimmed the source code, I
> think I can handle this on my own, since the maximum of interaction with
> the DAC in the driver is setting volume.

The OSS CMI8788 driver is quite limited when compared to the current 
ALSA driver.  I have a CMI8788 board with a WM8785 ADC.  I cannot use it 
  with OSS because the driver does not support it.


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