[alsa-devel] HDA Intel IDT 92HD71B7X - HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF - Only the left speaker is working

[Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk)]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 18:36, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>
> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:22:56 +0100,
> Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk) wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 18:15, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:07:40 +0100,
> > > Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thank you that actually worked, I have now both Front Left and LFE working,
> > > > but it's very hard to tell coz the LFE is louder than both front speakers I
> > > > even put my ear directly on the speaker and it still can't be 100% sure, but
> > > > I think that for now what is working is 'Front Left + LFE', I can't hear
> > > > anything from the right speaker.. but it's already an improvement to what I
> > > > had.
> > >
> > > Hm, if it's *so* loud, we should have a mixer control for this, I
> > > guess.
> > >
> > It's not *so* loud, but yea I appreciate a mixer for it yes! at least
> > I can tell which speaker is working and also I can listen to Music
> > without bothering someone else because with LFE the base is loud..
>
> OK, how about the patch below?
>
> > > > Do you have any suggestion on how to enable the right speaker?
> > >
> > > No, already out of idea...  I wonder whether any other people
> > > suffering from the same problem?
> > >
> > Julien has the same PC, same OS, same Kernel, same BIOS Version, but
> > the weird thing is that he is not suffering from this problem, which
> > obviously led me to beleive a hardware defect, but it's working on
> > Windows!
>
> This is really weird...
>
>
> Takashi
>

Because the patch is not attached, I can't quite copy it correctly
from Gmail, so I did it by hand (attached), I applied it but I don't
see the mixer anywhere in alsamixer. I double checked the patch
though...

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