[Openvortex-dev] Re: Mo' better modem support

[Raymond]

ASUS L8400B notebook equipped with au8810 chip and there is a Win9x 
Aureal audio/modem driver for the notebook

http://usa.asus.com/download/notebook/nb-l8400b.htm

Is this kind of softmodem supported by ALSA ?

http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20010202/l8400b-09.html


Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've played a bit the ac97 modem yesterday, and found out the
> following problems:
>
> 1. Off-Hook switch needs manually turned on
>
>    Shall we add a hook in pcm.modem definition for this control?
>
> 2. All controls have index 1, thus the appearance on alsamixer looks
>    strange
>
> 3. There is no way to detect the modem driver from sysfs or so.
>
>    Espeically, hda-intel driver supports both audio and modem by a
>    single driver, and the modem support doesn't appear even on proc
>    file explicitly.
>
> Well, 2 is a minor problem, and we can live with that.
> But others should be improved...
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Takashi