[alsa-devel] Benq S32 headphones detection

Aleh aleh.fl at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 17:25:18 CEST 2009


On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:13:17 +0300, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:

> At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:50:32 +0300,
> Aleh wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:04:12 +0300, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>> > At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:58:58 +0300
>> > Aleh wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I had a problem with muting speakers when headphones are plugged-in  
>> on
>> >> my
>> >> Benq S32B. So I added proper board configuration to
>> >> sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c and now it works.
>> >>
>> >> I wonder if anyone has similar hardware (S-series Benq laptop) to  
>> test
>> >> the
>> >> patch (attached) if you find it useful.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the patch.
>> > The lack of headphone mute is likely because of codec SSID value.
>> > The realtek codec is supposed to have some special SSID indicating
>> > the assembly information, but many vendors don't follow it.
>> >
>> > Could you try the patch below and try model=auto?  It's found in
>> > sound-unstable tree, too...
>>
>>
>> Downloaded and installed
>>      http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/alsa/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-unstable-snapshot.tar.bz2
>> in accordance with those instructions:
>>      http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-hda-intel
>>
>> loaded it with option 'model=auto' as you suggested, launched mplayer  
>> and
>> plugged/unplugged headphones several times.
>> Unfortunately, those actions weren't recognized and laudspeakers  
>> continued
>> playing without any interruption.
>
> OK, I found a problem.  The hook wasn't activated for ALC262.
> I fixed the patch now.  Could you retry the unstable snapshot again?

Gave a try to today's snapshot - the problem still exists as headphones  
haven't been detected.
Attached alsa-info.sh output, please let me know if you need any  
additional debug information.



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