From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RFxWE-0001E4-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:26:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E31721C046; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F000721C027 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:25:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so136507bke.40 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=e3Dr5FKW1MOnafKMKPj+DS1dFs6s86hsc3Z0zsNtqKE=; b=hK4/VCDQdpJDXj9Sg4LjFQbDx2+GvEDUQZKY+HMGXj67ms0d4pwfN6JDj1561YRsRZ TL1OLg8rRHxdcVQc8n0ZLbUkD7DJxuC5Fnm/3kpFdgJq7D828+rv3t6QkVs+90pz+/zQ +ln5nDRex8BBDmj1YnLo0JvCf1FFb6r4wt0/I= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.130.68 with SMTP id r4mr65398bks.62.1318897543931; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.22.6 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111017210825.GB19099@waltdnes.org> References: <20111012233555.GA8987@waltdnes.org> <4E966096.2070000@gmail.com> <20111017210825.GB19099@waltdnes.org> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:25:43 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which sound codecs do I need? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f627bb07469d3f22ac695870c50b0ed3 On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:52:54PM -0500, Dale wrote > >> Or lspci -k would tell what driver the CD was using, if sound worked >> which I bet it did. > > =C2=A0That tells me which *DRIVER* is in use (so does "lspci -v" for that > matter). =C2=A0It does *NOT* tell me the *AUDIO CODEC*. =C2=A0"lspci -k" = shows... > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Con= troller (rev 02) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Subsystem: Dell Device 020d > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Yeah, the intel_hda system is pretty funky. My understanding is that the API is essentially a programmable plugboard connecting the various DSPs on the chip, and that the "codec" is a mapping of which pins connect to which. Kinda neat, actually. You'd think someone clever would try expressing that interface more intuitively to the user. --=20 :wq