2012/5/30 David Henningsson david.henningsson@canonical.com:
On 05/30/2012 03:04 PM, Raymond Yau wrote:
I am afraid this does not work with desktop computer which has front mic , internal mic, Line in ,CD (or stereo mix with those via hda codecs)
With ubuntu 12.04 and unity , if I enable hda jack detect with my ad198x on my desktop, sound preference does not allow me to select front mic since I am still using ac97 front panel (with no jack detect circuit)
In that case your BIOS should detect that you're using an ac'97 front panel and set the "no prescence detect" bit in the default pin config.
The codec driver should then not create any jack at all, and PulseAudio would pick up 'Input Source' -> 'Front Mic' as a reason to have create a 'Front Mic' port.
The patched driver just create two jack detect controls for rear panel jacks when BIOS set front audio panel type to AC97
There are difference for the system settings/sound in unity and gnome
In gnome session, the system settings/sound list the three hardcoded ports (front mic, line and rear mic) instead of all the items in the "Input source" / "Capture Source" controls ( There is no CD in HDA, and no CD , stereo mix, aux, phone for my other sound cards with ac97 codec)
Is there any way to add back "Stereo Mix" to pulseaudio 's port ?
In unity session, the system settings/sound only list the plugged jacks.
I think the usage of jack detect to select input source automatically is broken for for those motherboards which have three audio jacks in rear panel and retask those pink and blue jacks for surround51 output.
The module-switch-on-available-port should check whether "Channel mode' is 6 and exclude the result those jack detect of "rear mic" and "line in" since they have been retasked for output
BTW, the ICH8 HDA controller support multi stream capturing and ad1988 has thee capture subdevices
arecord -l card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 3/3 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
what is the definition of "Mono Output" in pulseaudio ?
it is just the capability of the sound card to play mono or have a mono speaker with a specific volume control
My three other sound cards does support mono playback and mono capture
The system setting/sound in gnome session allow me to select "mono duplex" but when it does not allow me to select "mono output + mono input" in unity session.