[alsa-devel] conexant alsa patch

[Tobin Davis]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 15:20 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:27:39 +0000,
> Hirakendu Das wrote:
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > This regarding the conexant alsa patches authored by you. Firstly, thanks for
> > the drivers :). Just wanted to say that if you can kindly look at the following
> > minor issue. The master volume control in any mixer frontend (alsamixer or kmix
> > etc) doesn't work in the latest patches. It used to work in the old patches.
> > Strangely and thankfully, just changing the references of "Master Playback
> > Volume" and "Master Playback Switch" in the file patch_conexant.c to simply
> > "Playback Volume" and "Playback Switch"  as in the old patch seems to make it
> > work again as earlier. It works for me on my hp dv5000t notebook with conexant
> > 5047. Could you just look into if its the case for all others. (Please see the
> > attachments for details.)
> >    (Its of a bit of cosmetic value for me, as without it, I can't control volume
> > using my notebook buttons.)
> > PS : Is it true for other sound codecs too ?
> 
> Can you try to build from HG tree?  Then you can trace exactly which
> commit breaks by bisecting the commits.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi


Preliminary tests against the 2.6.22 (alsa driver 1.0.14) breaks the
automute on my test board (for some reason - still looking at this).  I
will also try against the tip to see if there are other major issues.

-- 
Tobin Davis <tdavis at dsl-only.net>