I'm having an issue with " Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller" card which is inside the Dell XPS13 9333 developer edition [1].
I've tried two different distributions
- Arch Linux (kernel 3.14)
Output of alsa-utlils-alsa-info.sh [2]
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (kernel 3.13)
Output of alsa-utlils-alsa-info.sh [3]
The card behaves correctly under Ubuntu but under Arch Linux I've observed the following issues.
- The microphone does not work correctly. In alsamixer I select
"Internal Mic" as my capture device but when I do
how many audio jacks do your laptop have ?
/sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/init_pin_configs: 0x12 0x90a60140 0x14 0x90170110 0x15 0x0321101f 0x16 0x40000000 0x18 0x411111f0 0x19 0x411111f0 0x1a 0x411111f0 0x1b 0x411111f0 0x1d 0x40d6832d 0x1e 0x411111f0 0x1f 0x411111f0
/sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/driver_pin_configs: 0x19 0x03a1913d 0x1b 0x03a1113c
seem driver assign sequence number c and d to some of the pin to indicate support of headset mic and headphone mic
do your laptop specification support headset, headphone or mic if your laptop has only one jack ?
http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2014/03/07/headset-jacks-on-ne...
did the dialog popup ?
I've also tried enabling/disabling "CAPTURE" on the Capture channel at
the same time - I don't really understand why this channel is here (seems a little bizarre) but enabling/disabling "CAPTURE" on this channel doesn't seem to make any difference anyway. Under Ubuntu the "arecord... aplay" command works correctly.
- There probably isn't a way to reproduce this but when I first
installed Arch Linux the sound card was put in a state where the headphone jack would not work at all. Sound would continue playing out of the speakers when the headphone jack was inserted and no sound would come out of the headphones. I did notice that if the headphone jack was only partially inserted I would get some sound sent to one of the headphones.
My intuition is that the card is probably being incorrectly initialised because if you take a look at the output of alsa-utils-alsa-info.sh and diff them. Two very big differences I noticed were that
One interesting I did notice is that under Arch Linux it is possible to use the microphone from the Audacity program by selecting "HDA Intel PCH: ALC3661Analog (hw0:0) Internal mic:0" as the input (this is not the default). Unfortunately I know of no way to make other applications use this.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
[1] http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd [2] https://gist.github.com/delcypher/11367224 [3] https://gist.github.com/delcypher/11367302