The commentary says to use various parameters, and lays out what the mapping is... The code used a 32KHz rate when the comment says that it needs to use a 48KHz rate. And this has been the case since day one.
On the Alienware M17x R4, the DMic used to have exceptionally quiet pickup and a lot of noise. Changing the data rate fixes both of these issues.
Searching the kernel bug tracker for ca0132-related issues shows no mention of this being an issue for other hardware, and I have no other hardware to test with, so a quirk is used to limit the effect to just the M17x R4.
Signed-off-by: Alastair Bridgewater alastair.bridgewater@gmail.com
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c index cef22c60d7ee..614f69407c9f 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c @@ -991,6 +991,7 @@ struct ca0132_spec { enum { QUIRK_NONE, QUIRK_ALIENWARE, + QUIRK_ALIENWARE_M17XR4, QUIRK_SBZ, QUIRK_R3DI, }; @@ -1040,6 +1041,7 @@ static const struct hda_pintbl r3di_pincfgs[] = { };
static const struct snd_pci_quirk ca0132_quirks[] = { + SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1028, 0x057b, "Alienware M17x R4", QUIRK_ALIENWARE_M17XR4), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1028, 0x0685, "Alienware 15 2015", QUIRK_ALIENWARE), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1028, 0x0688, "Alienware 17 2015", QUIRK_ALIENWARE), SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1028, 0x0708, "Alienware 15 R2 2016", QUIRK_ALIENWARE), @@ -6130,7 +6132,10 @@ static void ca0132_init_dmic(struct hda_codec *codec) * Bit 6: set to select Data2, clear for Data1 * Bit 7: set to enable DMic, clear for AMic */ - val = 0x23; + if (spec->quirk == QUIRK_ALIENWARE_M17XR4) + val = 0x33; + else + val = 0x23; /* keep a copy of dmic ctl val for enable/disable dmic purpuse */ spec->dmic_ctl = val; snd_hda_codec_write(codec, spec->input_pins[0], 0,