[alsa-devel] HP dv series mute LED problems?

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Thu May 13 00:13:44 CEST 2010


At Wed, 12 May 2010 21:55:50 +0200,
Thoralf Freitag wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai schrieb:
> > At Wed, 12 May 2010 11:33:06 +0530,
> > Kunal Gangakhedkar wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 2:11:13 am Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>     
> >>> At Tue, 11 May 2010 22:23:42 +0200,
> >>> I wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> At Wed, 12 May 2010 00:25:07 +0530,
> >>>> Kunal Gangakhedkar wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Hi Takashi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The commit 26ebe0a28986f4845b2c5bea43ac5cc0b9f27f0a seems to undo the mute LED
> >>>>> gpio fixes - at least on my dv6 series laptop.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Maybe, we need to come up with a better solution to accommodate the problem 
> >>>>> reported in this thread:
> >>>>> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2010-May/027352.html
> >>>>> I believe, that's the reason for the commit, right?
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Yes.  And as I checked the previous code, actually dv4 took GPIO 0.
> >>>> That's why I added it there back.
> >>>>
> >>>> But, hmm, then it's really depending on the dv model number.
> >>>> Which PCI / codec SSID does your device have?
> >>>>         
> >>> As a compromise, how about the additional patch below?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Yes, this patch fixes the problems on my dv6 machine and 
> >> looks reasonable to me.
> >>
> >> However, we need confirmation from Thoralf - whether it works for him too.
> >> I don't know if STAC_HP_DV4 can be reused for dv7 series machines - since I
> >> don't have access to verify it.
> >>     
> >
> > The PCI SSID was already given from his alsa-info.sh output.
> > Actually, dv4 and dv7 seem to have very similar implementations and
> > almost same SSIDs.
> >
> >   
> >> Tested-by: Kunal Gangakhedkar <kunal.gangakhedkar at gmail.com> (for dv6-1110ax)
> >> Acked-by: Kunal Gangakhedkar <kunal.gangakhedkar at gmail.com>
> >>     
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> >
> > Takashi
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> >   
> 
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> 
> sorry for my delay. I've a heavy workload with my job.
> 
> 
> 
> Try applying the patch, there is one error. IMHO it isn't a problem because my alsa-driver-1.0.23 patch_sigmatel.c file doesn't contain the line
> 
> -               spec->gpio_led = 0x01;
> 
> at this place.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 1690 (offset -2 lines).
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 1703 (offset -2 lines).
> Hunk #4 succeeded at 1722 (offset -2 lines).
> Hunk #5 succeeded at 5676 (offset -5 lines).
> Hunk #6 FAILED at 5687.
> Hunk #7 succeeded at 5747 (offset -7 lines).
> 
> 1 out of 7 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c.rej
> 
> 
> Here the content of patch_sigmatel.c.rej
> 
> 
> *************** again:
> *** 5681,5687 ****
>                  * detection.
>                  */
>                 spec->hp_detect = 1;
> -               spec->gpio_led = 0x01;
>                 break;
>         case STAC_HP_HDX:
>                 spec->num_dmics = 1;
> --- 5687,5692 ----
>                  * detection.
>                  */
>                 spec->hp_detect = 1;
>                 break;
>         case STAC_HP_HDX:
>                 spec->num_dmics = 1;
> 
> 
> But the patch doesn't solve the problem. Like before, the mute led isn't switched on/off (whithe/orange). Maybe set_hp_led_gpio overwrites the value for gpio_led, which is set static before ?

Try alsa-driver snapshot tarball below.
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz

The fixed patch is already included there.


Takashi


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