RE: Realtek HDA and Vista Beta 2

I have very similar problem with my ALC880 HDA audio device with Vista x64
beta 5384 and Realtek Vista beta driver dated 2006/6/30.
This latest driver looks successfully installed and ALC880 Audio Output is
submitting some sound signal. I noticed this is working by the green bar
animation in the Speakers icon in the High Definition Audio Device property
screen. This screen is available through sound icon in CP and it is what you
attached in your original mail. However I cannot hear any sound from
speakers.
I am suspecting this is because I cannot have speakers cable plugged into
correct ALC880 output terminals (one out of four, i.e. Front, Rear,
Surround, Center + Subwoofer) Usually this plug assignment is programmable
in HDA but in case of x64 Realtek ALC880 driver won't allow this plug
assignment possible.
I'm sure this is correct because the Plugged Into of my Speakers property
tells it is connected to Center + Subwoofer. This assignment could not be
corrected even when I change the speakers plugged in location physically.
In case of Vista x86 beta 5384 the same Realtek ALC880 driver (which is
valid for both x86 and x64) this plug allocation is programmable and you can
easily allocate which plug will correspond to Front or others. So you can
listen HDA quality sound through ALC880 under Vista.

"Yevgen Lasman" <e_lasman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:77CF4D8E-9EDE-44B3-8599-9B3294DC6462@microsoft.com...

> I've installed Vista Beta (b5384) on modified Gateway SE4 E-2500s (P4
> 3.0GHz
> 630/1Gb DDR2/i915GV/SATA150 160Gb) with Realtek HDA audio device and i915
> graphic.
> Graphics works well, but sound... After I startup system, sound works. I
> can
> listen music, watch DVD, everything okay. But in 10-15 minutes, WMP stop
> playing music with message that file can't be played. I tried to install
> WinAMP, and WinAMP can't play with message that Primary DirectSound buffer
> couldn't be created.
> The PC have additionally two jacks on front panel, which are treated in
> the
> system as separate sound device (look attachment). So, usually I'm using
> just speakers, but when I want to listen through headphones, which are
> connected to fron jack, I've to change to second audio device. After I've
> just installed Vista I could change it, but now I could switch to
> headphones
> only after speakers' device failed.
> Does anyone know solution for this? I tried to look for latest drivers in
> Intel, Realtek web sites, but I couldn't found anything about Vista's
> drivers, even beta drivers.
>