[alsa-devel] snd-hda-intel AD1981 - the microphone doesn't work

Grzegorz Chwesewicz grzegorz.chwesewicz at chilan.com
Wed Feb 20 21:45:25 CET 2008


> > Thursday 14 of February 2008 13:14:18 Takashi Iwai napisał(a):
> > > And, does a similar problem like Grzegorz's case occur on your laptop?
> > > Some HP laptops (so far, AMD SB450-based) occasionally cause a hang-up
> > > during recording from the mic when HD is accessed.  This is far more
> > > nasty problem, and it's interesting to know whether this happens on
> > > other chipset.
> >
> > 	Hi Takashi. I've experimented a little with power saving in HD Intel
> > Audio. I've noticed that using power saving with timeout set to 10 sec.
> > solves my problem partially. When arecord stops recording I can turn it
> > off, wait 10 seconds, and recording works back again. This is obvious,
> > because power saving simply powers off and on device. I was wondering
> > that maybe we can implement ioctl or something that will dump "state"
> > (informations that will help in debuging) of device, when recording is
> > not working, and "state" just after power on to compare what causes
> > breakage ? Can you give me some tips about what informations are userful
> > in debuging ?
>
> Well, the question is what "state".  Interesting thing is that it's
> specific to ATI SB, and seems irrelevant with codec chip.  So, the
> codec information is likely useless.  But, I don't think the broken
> situation is reflected on PCI reg space.
>
> BTW, Andi Kleen also has a similar problem on his machine and he used
> noirqdebug boot option.  But, in his case, the irq line of HD audio
> device isn't shared with others.

Hi Andi. Do you have similiar problem, and did you resolve it ?

Links to threads are below:

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2449
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-February/005817.html
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-February/006042.html

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Greetings
Grzegorz Chwesewicz, Chilan 
mailto:grzegorz.chwesewicz at chilan.com


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