[alsa-devel] intel-hd on an intel G33 motherboard

Jiang zhe zhe.jiang at intel.com
Fri Jan 18 03:26:25 CET 2008 

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 19:31 +0000, De Fuuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Indeed it works. As you mght have noticed I'm new to ALSA ;-) and I hadn't noticed that some of the channels could be muted. I thought they were muted only when at 0%. I also get "hda_codec_setup_stream:NID=" lines in dmesg now. I'm really sorry about that, it's really a beginner's mistake.
> 
> At least one good thing came out of it: I can confirm that hda_intel works with model=6stack-hp on the XPC Shuttle SG33G5M . I will continue to carry out tests to see if there are any issues with Mic, line out, spdifs etc..
> 
Since there are only five jacks on the back panel, 
It's better to implement a 5stack-hp model for it.
I will do it.

Best regards!

> I'd like to thank all those that helped me for their continued patience and understanding. ALSA rocks because of you!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> > From: zhe.jiang at intel.com
> > To: fuuss at hotmail.com
> > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:36:32 +0800
> > CC: cmatsuoka at gmail.com; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] intel-hd on an intel G33 motherboard
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 23:06 +0000, De Fuuss wrote:
> >> Ups my bad, somehow the model number got commented out by an update script I ran yesterday. The drivers were recompiled with the "with-debug=detect" option set. I've attached the dmesg, codec#0 output and amixer contents.
> >> Dmesg is not very talkative, it did not show "hda_codec_setup_stream:NID=", however I get something of the type "hda_generic: no proper output path found".
> >> About the testing, I performed speaker-test every time I changed something (still only output on "Front L/R channels").
> >>
> >
> > I guess that the "hda_generic: no proper output" is caused during
> > detect another codec.
> >
> > It's strange that there is no messages like
> > "hda_codec_setup_stream:NID=" when you run speaker-test.
> >
> >>From you amixer1.txt, I found that you muted the Surround,C/LFE and
> > Side.Please unmute them.
> >
> > Did you just run the "speaker-test -Dplug:surround71 -c8 -sX" with the
> > X=0 and X=1?
> > If it is true, you should change the X from 0 to 8.
> >
> > Best regards!
> >
> >
> >> Patrick
> >>
> >>> From: zhe.jiang at intel.com
> >>> To: fuuss at hotmail.com
> >>> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:49:43 +0800
> >>> CC: cmatsuoka at gmail.com; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] intel-hd on an intel G33 motherboard
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 02:22 +0800, De Fuuss wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have recompiled the driver with --with-debug=detect. Dmesg output is
> >>>> attached to this mail. ALSA specificities seem to be present this
> >>>> time.
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>>>From the dmesg, there is "hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying
> >>> auto-probe from BIOS"
> >>> It looks like that no "model=" is assigned.
> >>> Did you assign model for the driver?
> >>>
> >>> Can you play some music?
> >>> Then there will be some info in the dmesg like
> >>> "hda_codec_setup_stream:NID= ".
> >>> Please paste such info and give the result of
> >>> "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0".
> >>>
> >>> BTW, how did you do the testing?
> >>> You run speaker-test or by other way?
> >>>
> >>>>From the codec info, it seems that there are paths from DAC to Jack.
> >>> So it's a little weird that all other jacks are silent.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>> Hope this helps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Patrick
> >>>>
> >>>>> From: zhe.jiang at intel.com
> >>>>> To: fuuss at hotmail.com
> >>>>> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:32:35 +0800
> >>>>> CC: cmatsuoka at gmail.com; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] intel-hd on an intel G33 motherboard
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:11 +0000, De Fuuss wrote:
> >>>>>> The jumper is now set to enable onboard (Intel HDA) audio.
> >>>>>> At the back of the barebone there are 5 jacks (4 channels for 7.1
> >>>> and 1 line in channel) + 1 spdif out.
> >>>>>> From these, using 6stack-hp, only the "Front L/R" jack works, none
> >>>> of the others
> >>>>>> On the front, there are 2 jacks (1 headphones and 1 microphone).
> >>>> The headphone jack works.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Can you tell us how you did the testing?
> >>>>>>From the driver code, it's not likely that all other jacks don't
> >>>> work.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Because the driver support up-mixing, you can play a 2-channel music
> >>>> and
> >>>>> get sound from 4 jacks on the back panel.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I read the dmesg output that you sent to me.
> >>>>> But there is no alsa debug info in it.
> >>>>> Did you really configure the driver with the option
> >>>>> "--with-debug=detect"?
> >>>>> If not, please try it and paste the dmesg info, it is helpful to
> >>>> trace
> >>>>> the issue.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards!
> >>>>> Jiang,zhe
> >>>>>> All the channels have been set to 100% in alsamixer.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Considering that a week ago I had 0.0 and today I'm at 2.0, it's
> >>>> already a improvement. ;-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Patrick
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] intel-hd on an intel G33 motherboard
> >>>>>>> From: zhe.jiang at intel.com
> >>>>>>> To: fuuss at hotmail.com
> >>>>>>> CC: cmatsuoka at gmail.com; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> >>>>>>> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:43:00 +0800
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 02:06 +0800, De Fuuss wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Following your advice, I tested per channel output. Using either
> >>>>>>>> 6stack-dig or 6stack-hp, I get noise from Front Left and Right
> >>>> jacks,
> >>>>>>>> using speaker-test (X=1 and 2) but not on any other channels.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>> Did you mean that after you changed the 'Jumper',
> >>>>>>> you could get the sound from the Front jack on the back channel?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Patrick
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:01:50 -0200
> >>>>>>>>> From: cmatsuoka at gmail.com
> >>>>>>>>> To: fuuss at hotmail.com
> >>>>>>>>> CC: zhe.jiang at intel.com; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> >>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] intel-hd on an intel G33 motherboard
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> 2008/1/12 De Fuuss :
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I get the uneasy feeling that something is messed up with this
> >>>>>>>> board. Anyway, for completeness' sake, I attached the results of
> >>>>>>>> amixer contents, cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 and dmesg for the
> >>>>>>>> module loaded as 6stack-dig. I have to try 6stack-hp again to
> >>>> confirm
> >>>>>>>> if I get something there.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I fixed the Inspiron output, and I'm adding the SG33G5M codec to
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> codecgraph codecs collection (git repository at
> >>>>>>>>> http://helllabs.org/git/codecgraph.git). If nodes 0x14, 0x15,
> >>>> 0x16
> >>>>>>>> and
> >>>>>>>>> 0x17 are the front, rear, clfe and side connectors in the back
> >>>>>>>> panel,
> >>>>>>>>> 6stack-hp should work (at least for the outputs). You can test
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>>>> outputs using "speaker-test -Dplug:surround71 -c8 -sX" (where X
> >>>>>>>> varies
> >>>>>>>>> from 1 to 8) and a pair of headphones.
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