On 2015-06-24 14:10, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:06:05 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
On 2015-06-24 11:00, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:46:33 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
Thinkpad X250, when attached to a dock, has two headphone outs but no line out. Make sure we don't try to turn this into one headphone and one line out (since that disables the headphone amp on the dock).
Alsa-info at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=36f8764e1d782397928feec715d0ef90dfddd4c1
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Henningsson david.henningsson@canonical.com
This is one of fixes I had in mind (and asked for testing in bugzilla kernel.org report).
Sorry, I'm missing context. What report?
One drawback by this is that the auto-mute *between* the headphones won't work like before. If one has expected it, then this can be seen as a regression.
Fair enough, we can drop stable from the patch since this could be seen as behavioural change rather than bug fix.
Another fix was to change this as a proper line-out. This will keep the current auto-mute behavior.
OTOH, dealing both jacks equally is also not bad, per se.
The tricky thing about routing is that everyone wants it different, so pleasing everyone seems to be an impossible equation :-/
I would choose the default behaviour (headphone or line out) based on the icon on the jack. I should double-check that with someone who has the hardware. And then, if someone wants another behaviour then hdajackretask can be used. Or we can add a jack mode kcontrol for that jack, if you prefer, although I'd have to check how PulseAudio handles that (not that well, is my gut feeling).
I have no preference in this regard. My only slight concern was the behavior change by this patch. It has both sides, one can see as an improvement while another as a regression.
Currently I'm inclined to take this patch as is, since this would make things working in a little obstacle. Once when we get a real regression report due to the lack of exclusive mute control, we may provide another model option as a compromise.
But, I'm open about this, really. So, if anyone has a good argument, let me know.
Anyhow, it looks like the current behaviour is not good, because we have a "Dock Headphone Jack" on the same node as "Dock Line Out Playback Switch". This makes me wonder if the HP -> LO fixup should be removed altogether. Are there any machines these days that needs this fixup? In case there were just a few of them in the past, maybe they should have pin fixups instead?