Re: Audigy2 renamed, grrr...

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:46:18 +0100,
Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 16:08, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> > rlrevell@joe-job.com (Lee Revell) writes:
> > > These changes were required to support the increasingly wide variety of
> > > emu10k1 based hardware.
> > >
> > > Anyway it should not matter - newer versions of alsactl will still be
> > > able to restore the mixer settings.
> >
> > Well it looks like I've lost my analog output in 2.6.14-rc2 (headphones on
> > the LiveDrive work fine though).
> >
> > My card is now reported as a SBLive! Platinum 5.1 [SB0060] and i've been
> > loading the modules with the following:
> > extin=0x3fc3 extout=0x1fc3 enable_ir=1
> 
> My ZS is also reported as a Platinum. It does seem rather odd.
> 
> > It's been working fine until the latest git updates. I'll try
> > again tonight if I get the time.
> 
> [alistair] 16:45 [~] cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [Audigy2        ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]
>                      Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P] (rev.4, serial:0x10021102) at 
> 0x9000, irq 177

In this case, it's harmless at all.
No difference of driver functionality between both of them, and the
driver id string is set to the same name.

The problem is simply because Creative shipped too many variants with
the same IDs...


Takashi