[alsa-devel] 1.0.15: volume levels drift on HDA with STAC92XXcodec

[Tellman, Steven]

> On Monday 05 November 2007 13:40:48 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:17:30 +0200,
> > Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thursday 01 November 2007 19:47:39 Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > > We have two reports now of unstable volume levels:
> > > >
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=361051
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354981
> > > >
> > > > This is with kernel 2.6.23 plus the two ALSA merge patches from
> > > > 2.6.23-rc1.
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> > > >
> > > Probably this isn't a software bug.
> > > Probably this chip country to datasheet doesn't have usable
"Master
> >  > Volume" (volume knob) control.
> > >
> > >
> > > The master volume control wasn't present before, I added support
for
> >  > it, using data-sheets.
> > > I need to know what exactly sigmatel codec was used in both cases.
> >
> > Yes, the latter case seems with STAC9205 but the former one (361051)
> > isn't clear.  Please check /proc/asound/card0/codec#* entries.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> 
> The former is also STAC9205/04/ since it is the only one with analog
> loopback and two ADCs
> 
> I have question, I talked with the reporter of 354981, and I don't
know
> why but his amixer
> gives very strange results:
> 
> [root at itse68482 ~]# cat amixer-contents-kernel-2.6.23.2-36
> numid=0,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
>   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
>   : values=on
> numid=0,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
>   ; type=INTEGER,access=rw------,values=2,min=0,max=65536,step=1
>   : values=65536,65536
> numid=0,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'
>   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
>   : values=on
> numid=0,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'
>   ; type=INTEGER,access=rw------,values=2,min=0,max=65536,step=1
>   : values=34953,34953
> 
> How can that be?
> 
> According to his  lspci, he doesn't have a second sound card.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Besides that it seems that VolumeKnob is physically broken on
STAC9205s,
> Can anybody here with STAC9205/STAC9204/STAC9254/STAC9255 test it?
> 
> And last question, about STAC9254/STAC9255
> There is no datasheet for that chip on the web, is this just STAC9205
+
> modem?
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Maxim Levitsky
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[Tellman, Steven] 

The STAC9254/55 lines are not available anymore. Yes, they were
basically 9204/5 + Modem.

- Steven