[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Consider additional capture source/selector in ALC889

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:10:10 +0000 (UTC),
Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> 
> Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton <at> mandriva.com.br> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Em Quarta-feira 28 Janeiro 2009, às 13:30:10, Takashi Iwai escreveu:
> > > At Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:16:33 -0200,
> > > Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Currently code for capture source support in ALC889 only considers
> > > > capture mixers. This change adds aditional support for ADC+selector
> > > > present in ALC889, taking into account also the presence of an
> > > > additional DMIC connection item in the selector.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton <at> mandriva.com.br>
> > > > ---
> > > >  sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c |  105
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > > >  1 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > Note: I did this patch without hardware to test on, just based on
> alsa-info.txt
> > > > from one machine with ALC889 plus the ALC889 datasheet available from
> > > > Realtek website, so this is just build tested.
> > > 
> > > Could you post that alsa-info output?  Then I can test it with
> > > hda-emu, too.
> > 
> > Ops, it's the /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 (not full alsa-info, just confused
> > myself) in this ticket: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45838
> > I have yet to check hda-emu, will test with it next time.
> > 
> > I did a patch for alsa 1.0.18 for the bug report, now I was converting it to
> > sound tree, by first adding this capture ADC+selector support and later to add
> > an additional model for acer 8930. Just didn't submit the patch with model
> > addition yet as it looks like the laptop has speakers for rear/clfe etc. and
> > I'm now waiting from feedback about this on the bug report, but for now the
> > patch with addition is this:
> > 
> > ALSA: hda - Add acer-aspire-alc889 model for ALC889 codecs
> > 
> > This adds a new model to handle Acer Aspire 8930, that slightly differs
> > from other ALC883/889 models. Currently it doesn't work as reported on
> > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45838
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton <at> mandriva.com.br>
> > ---
> Hi,
> sorry to disturb.
> I have an acer Aspire 8930 and I am fighting with sound.
> I have an up-to-date ubuntu Intrepid distribution.
> I had NO sound at all.
> I followed instructions upgrading to latest alsa-driver-1.0.19 added "options
> snd-hda-intel model=acer" to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and
> "/usr/local/bin/hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x15 SET_EAPD_BTLENABLE 2" to
> /etc/rc.local.
> JOY! I have sound.
> So far so good.
> Now my problem is I do not have capture (intrnal or external mic are not
> working); I kept searching and found this thread.
> I downloaded the alsa-driver-snapshot-tiwai from ftp.kernel.org, applied the
> last patch (it seemed not applied in the snapshot) which went in with some line
> discrepancies.
> Removed the above settings and insatalled the new driver.
> Result is now I have a *very* low volume audio and I'm unsure the mic is working
> at all.
> I'm obviously missing something.
> Can someone be so kind to point me in the right direction, please?
> I'm (obviously!) ready to offer all info required. I simply didn't want to make
> this post any longer.

Try the latest snapshot below with model=auto option.
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz

If this doesn't work, please run alsa-info.sh with --no-upload option
and attach the generated file.  The script is found at
    http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh


thanks,

Takashi