[alsa-devel] alsa 1.0.18 does not work for Intel onboard cards

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:55:22 -0200,
Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
>     At Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:29:03 -0200,
>     Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>     >
>     > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>     >
>     >     At Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:52:24 -0200,
>     >     Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti <
>     promac at gmail.com>
>     >     wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     > > Hi,
>     >     > >
>     >     > > alsa driver 1.0.18 has been a nightmare for me.
>     >     > >
>     >     > > I had a perfectly working sound for my Intel D975XBX2 when using
>     >     > > alsa driver 1.017. Going to 1.0.18 just muted my front sound.
>     >     > > Well, maybe not everybody needs a front sound output, but I just
>     >     > > stick with the 1.01.17 driver.
>     >     > >
>     >     > >
>     >     > Then, I tried an Intel DG45ID mobo, which does not have
>     >     > any sound at all, with the later alsa driver 1.0.18a (detected as
>     a
>     >     Generic
>     >     > DG45).
>     >     >
>     >     > Going back to alsa driver 1.0.17, from the stock Fedora 10 kernel
>     >     > (my card is then detected as an IDT 92HD73E1X5),
>     >     > I have an analogic sound working, but Master, Headphones, and PCM
>     >     > channels have to be above 90%, for anyone being able to hear
>     anything.
>     >     > Therefore, the volume is compressed in the upper 10% of the scale.
>     >     >
>     >     > Furthermore, I have no mic, and no input working (I would like to
>     feed
>     >     the
>     >     > output
>     >     > of my capture card to the input source of the sound card) .
>     >     > It seems to me that the input (blue jack)  is configured as
>     output,
>     >     > in the 1.0.17 alsa driver.
>     >     >
>     >     > I do not know what else I can try, maybe some alsa snapshot,
>     >     > to fix some of these issues.
>     >
>     >     Try the snapshot on
>     >      ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/
>     >     alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz
>     >
>     > Thanks, Takashi
>     >
>     > but it did not change anything for the Intel DG45ID.
>     > This is a Genuine Intel mother board.
>     >
>     > The sound card is detected as "Generic 8086 Intel G45 Develk",
>     > but I do not hear anything, even with all mixer channel at the maximum
>     > volumes.
>     >
>     > This is a  Fedora 10, with the latest alsa packages, and
>     > everything seems OK, the applications work, but I do no hear anything.
>     >
>     > With the alsa driver from the latest Fedora kernel
>     >
>     > Linux version 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64
>     >
>     > the card is detected as IDT 92HD73E1X5 and,
>     >
>     > although I have to put all the mixer channels at the maximum, the sound
>     > output works fine, even mid emulation.
>     >
>     > During the snapshot compilation, I got dozens of this warning:
>     >
>     >
>     ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/include/config1.h:65:1: warning:
>     > "CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT" redefined
>     > In file included from <command-line>:0:
>     > ./include/linux/autoconf.h:260:1: warning: this is the location of the
>     > previous definition
>     >   CC [M]  /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/misc/ac97_bus.o
>     > In file included from /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/include/
>     config.h:6,
>     >                  from /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/include/
>     > adriver.h:25,
>     >                  from /home/roma/redhat/BUILD/alsa-driver/misc/
>     ac97_bus.c:1:
>     >
>     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    
>     It's no big issue, I guess.
>    
>     > This is the output of alsa-info, with the stock driver (1.0.17):
>    
>     Run alsa-info with --no-upload option on both working (1.0.17) and
>     non-working versions, and attach the generated files.
> 
> This is for the  Intel D975XBX2, which lost the front sound with 1.0.18:
> Soundcard is detected as Sigmatel STAC9274D.

Which I/O are you referring to?
The headphone output seems unplugged, and thus the outputs are only
from other line-outs, as far as I see the codec info.


Takashi