[alsa-devel] ALC882 on Abit AW9D-MAX

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:51:30 +0300,
Dan Aloni wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:34:49PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:09:59 +0300,
> > Dan Aloni wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello, 
> > > 
> > > Yesterday I posted this bug in the bugtracker:
> > > 
> > >     https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3013
> > > 
> > > I have received no reponse yet.
> > > 
> > > I'd like to cooperate on solving this.
> > 
> > Most of such problems are caused by buggy BIOS, as the driver tries
> > to set up based on BIOS information if the device is unknown.
> 
> Maybe it's worth printing abouting this during load, something in 
> the lines of "BIOS-based initialization might be wrong..." etc.

Yeah, I found it when looking at the bug report above.
(Sorry, too little time to respond BTS nowadays...)

> > Did you try to pass model options for ALC882?
> > For example, model=3stack or model=6stack.
> > Also, position_fix option is worth try to fix some playback problems.
> 
> Okay, I'll try to fiddle with the settings according to your 
> suggestion - and if it works I'll post a patch for my board.

Thanks.
The options are listed in Documentation/ALSA-Configuration.txt.
Also, I recommend you to get the latest ALSA driver/kernel tree from
HG for debugging.  The rest, alsa-lib and utils should be OK with
older versions in most cases.


Takashi