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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:13:55 -0200,
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 14 February 2009 08:24:15 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:22:00 -0500,
> > Tim Barnette wrote:
> > > 
> > > ..And it worked!  I now have sound!  Can you tell me what I actually did here?
> > 
> > The problem was that your BIOS didn't set the correct default pin
> > configuration.  The driver doesn't know which pin should be used for
> > the speaker output, as a consequence, it's set as INPUT.
> > Now you set it OUTPUT manually by hda-verb, and (fortunately) the
> > route to that pin was alive even though it wasn't declared, you get
> > the speaker output now.
> > 
> > The next step is to implement a proper pin-config to override by
> > the driver.  This won't be much work, but hey, wait for a while.
> > 
> > (Or, did Herton already work on that?)
> 
> I had added before pin configs for which source came from *.ini files of IDT
> windows drivers provided by HP. But I don't know if they are at all necessary,
> may be just setting config of 0x0d pin should suffice for all hp-dv5 models,
> as all of them have speaker on 0x0d from all reports and also looking at the
> *.ini files.
> 
> I have three patches, you can choose one of them :), see attached. The first
> one is my previous pin configs work "let's set for all cases the pin configs
> based on *.ini files", the others are same smaller change/less intrusive that
> instead just deals with this hp dv4 case.

I took the last, the smallest one.  It's not too bad to define all
models, but at this stage, I'd like rather to slim the code down.


Thanks!

Takashi