[alsa-devel] Intel HDA / ca0132: support for Alienware 15 Creative Sound Core3D-EX

[Gabriele Martino]

On 30/04/2015 07:51, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:40:30 +0200,
> Gabriele Martino wrote:
>> hdajacksensetest -c 1 -a
>> Pin 0x0b (Internal Speaker): present = Yes
>> Pin 0x0c (Not connected): present = No
>> Pin 0x0d (Not connected): present = No
>> Pin 0x0e (Not connected): present = No
>> Pin 0x0f (Not connected): present = Yes
>> Pin 0x10 (Not connected): present = No
>> Pin 0x11 (Black Line In, Left side): present = No
>> Pin 0x12 (Internal Mic, Mobile-In): present = No
>> Pin 0x13 (Not connected): present = No
>> Pin 0x18 (Not connected): present = No
>>
>> Pin 0x0f is still reported as not connected, but correctly detects the
>> jack if plugged.
>> If I turn off and on the "HP/Speaker Auto Detect" in alsamixer while
>> "HP/Speaker" is off, the correct output is detected.
>> If "HP/Speaker" is on, the behaviour is inconsistent.
>>
>> Is there a configuration file? Where can I find the metadata "Black Line
>> In, Left side"?
>> I don't know if it is related, but pavucontrol detects only the
>> "speakers" port.
>> On my previous laptop (with Creative Recon 3Di, another ca0132 card) I
>> could choose between "speakers and "headphones".
> It implies that the whole pin config BIOS provides is buggy.   The
> jack color, location, etc, all are parsed from 32bit pin configuration
> value for each pin.
>
> You need to correct the pin config and sets it statically in the
> driver.  hdajackretask can give you the map and reload it
> dynamically.
>
Finally got it.
I'm not sure about overriding the BIOS configuration: there is a new
version which fixes all the unconnected pins.
There is only a small issue: the internal speakers are now marked as
"Line out", which seems to mess up the "Ports" section in Pulseaudio.

Regards,
Gabriele
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[pincfg]
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0x0d 0x014570f0
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0x12 0x37a791f0
0x13 0x908700f0
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