Ca0106
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This is the wiki page about Creative Labs Audigy LS alsa driver. It's called snd-ca0106 - formerly known as snd-audigyls.
Important: Audigy LS cards do not work with the EMU10K1-driver!
Below information is taken from James Courtier-Dutton's comments in the driver sources.
Supported cards
- SB Audigy LS
- SB Live 24bit - capture from analog inputs already works fine
FEATURES currently supported
- Front, Rear and Center/LFE.
- Surround40 and Surround51.
- Capture from MIC an LINE IN input.
- SPDIF digital playback of PCM stereo and AC3/DTS works.
- (One can use a standard mono mini-jack to one RCA plugs cable.
- or one can use a standard stereo mini-jack to two RCA plugs cable.
- Plug one of the RCA plugs into the Coax input of the external decoder/receiver.)
- ( In theory one could output 3 different AC3 streams at once, to 3 different SPDIF outputs. )
- Notes on how to capture sound:
- The AC97 is used in the PLAYBACK direction.
- The output from the AC97 chip, instead of reaching the speakers, is fed into the Philips 1361T ADC.
- So, to record from the MIC, set the MIC Playback volume to max,
- unmute the MIC and turn up the MASTER Playback volume.
- So, to prevent feedback when capturing, minimise the "Capture feedback into Playback" volume.
- The only playback controls that currently do anything are: -
- Analog Front
- Analog Rear
- Analog Center/LFE
- Analog Side ( controls the side speakers when adressing them directely through hw:0,3 )
- SPDIF Front
- SPDIF Rear
- SPDIF Center/LFE
SPDIF Unknown ( couldn't test it but i assume this does the same as analog side for digital. )
For capture from Mic in or Line in.
Digital/Analog ( switch must be in Analog mode for CAPTURE. )
CAPTURE feedback into PLAYBACK
To capture sound with the SB Live 24bit analog input you must set the "Digital source" control to "i2s in".
Hardware information
Model: SB0310
- P17 Chip: CA0106-DAT
- AC97 Codec: STAC 9721
- ADC: Philips 1361T (Stereo 24bit)
- DAC: WM8746EDS (6-channel, 24bit, 192Khz)
Model: SB0410
- P17 Chip: CA0106-DAT
- AC97 Codec: None
- ADC: WM8775EDS (4 Channel)
- DAC: CS4382 (114 dB, 24-Bit, 192 kHz, 8-Channel D/A Converter with DSD Support)
- SPDIF Out control switches between Mic in and SPDIF out.
Model: SB0413
- P17 Chip: CA0106-DAT
- AC97 Codec: None.
- ADC: Unknown
- DAC: Unknown
- Trying to handle it like the SB0410.
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