[alsa-devel] [Fwd: HP DV4 1155 SE - No Sound through speakers...]

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

Em Sábado 31 Janeiro 2009, às 05:52:19, Jean-Pierre André escreveu:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Hi all, I have an HP DV4 1155-SE, I've been unable to get sound working
> > through the speakers, although it does work through the headhpones. I ran
> > alsa-.upgrade which downloaded compiled, and installed 1.0.19 - still no
> > luck.
> >   
> 
> I have the same IDT codec 92HD71B7X on another
> HP DV4 model, and I have tracked the problem to be
> the kernel configuring IRQ 22 through the APIC, but
> interrupts triggerring IRQ 20 (on kernel 2.6.27 and
> alsa 1.0.19). It would be interesting if you could
> confirm this by analyzing /proc/interrupts.
> 
> The workarounds I know of are :
> - adding irqpoll to the boot options,
> - or adding noapic to the boot options,
> - using mplayer to play music.
> 
> There are with option "snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4"
> (this option is for HP DV5/DV7, but HP DV4
> is probably different)
> 
> I have not enough knowledge to tell where the problem
> lies : kernel, apic, alsa.

It looks like some of these HP laptops have some sort of IRQ issue indeed, to 
me it was reported that enabling pci MSI (both system wide and with 
enable_msi=1 given to snd-hda-intel) cured issues in some cases, along with 
some changes to sigmatel codec handling code in snd-hda-intel

I have a ticked opened where people started to complain about sound issues 
with hda-intel+sigmatel codec starting with alsa 1.0.18rc3 (sorry, it's a 
great mess, type of the ticket everyone says sound doesn't work and report in, 
but where I tried to filter some things out): 
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44855
Also some reports are hard to understand sometimes.
With alsa 1.0.18 final in 2.6.27 (or 2.6.28) many issues related on the ticket 
were fixed, but issues with HP laptops remained.

I don't have any of affected HP laptops for test, but based on sigmatel 
datasheets, reports of users and pin cfgs used in .ini files of sigmatel 
windows drivers I made some changes to sigmatel code, plus added patch to set 
enable_msi. The only issue I have with the changes, and that's why I didn't 
submit yet, is that I should have split them, don't know if everything is 
really required, and ask here to clarify some things below; also the changes 
are outdated compared to current sound git tree.

I'm attaching here the changes, they were made against kernel 2.6.28.2
- One patch deals with the sigmatel codec code, some things to note (others 
are cited on the patch):
* despite being almost the same, only with some models missing widgets/pins, I 
splitted support from patch_stac92hd71bxx for idt 92HD71B5X (4 port), 
92HD75B1/2 (5 port). Mostly because of different number of pins between them, 
may be could have still hacked more stac92xx_set_config_regs to avoid this.
* Many people complained about the Analog Loopback, causing problems when it's 
enabled; I really don't know what exactly this is supposed to do (is it just a 
mute of outputs or something like is described here?: 
http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/alsa-1.0.15rc2_snd-hda-intel.html) and 
all sigmatel datasheets I look don't mention it, in the patch I removed it.
* power management on pins (stac92hd71bxx_pwr_nids) are not listed on sigmatel 
datasheets I dowloaded from idt site (for STAC92HD71Bx and STAC92HD75Bx), so I 
removed its setting (or I'm missing something here...).
- The other patch adds a quirk list to force enable_msi=1. PCI_MSI must be 
enabled to give results.

> 
> Regards
> 
> Jean-Pierre
> 
> 
> > I ran alsa-info, output here:
> > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=844b7ee6468067460e17b7fc694e49052072a26f
> >
> > I filed a bug, here:
> > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4374
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >   

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Herton
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