[alsa-devel] alc889

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:54:15 +0200,
Stefan Krastanov wrote:
> 
> With model=fujitsu-pi2515
>     - jack sensing works (great!!!)
>     - still no control over sub-woofer
>     - there is some noise, but maybe is just the quality of my hardware
> 
> with model=fujitsu-xa3530
>     - no jack sensing
>     - the mixers are really mixed up - one slider controls one side of front
> speakers and other side of headphones
>     - there is some(not sure) control over sub-woofer volume
> 
> when I was using 3-stack-dig there were two slider (LFE and another one) that
> booth controlled the sub-woofer and there was third - "side" that was not
> controlling anything.
> 
> If there is a way to add a sub-woofer control to fujitsu-pi2515 it would be
> great - if it's too much too ask from you to do it, can you tell me where to
> start looking for a documented way to create a patch for a new type of model?
> (fujitsu-xi for example as it's the model of my laptop) I'm allready reading
> the other docs that you told me about.

Well, then you'll need to identify what verb changes correspond to
subwoofer volume.  Once after you know it, then the addition would be
fairly easy; just add the corresponding volume control to the array.


Takashi

> 
> Best regadrs
> Stefan Krastanov
> 
> 2009/6/23 Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> 
>     At Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:05:42 +0200,
>     Stefan Krastanov wrote:
>     >
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > Thank you for your fast response, I appreciate it, knowing you don't
>     have all
>     > that free time.
>     >
>     > As I have said my hardware configuration is: laptop with alc889
>     soundcard
>     >                                                                    - two
>     front
>     > speakers
>     >                                                                    - one
>     > sub-woofer
>     >                                                                    - one
>     > internal microphone
>     >                                                                    -
>     jacks
>     > with jacksensing (tested on windows) - mic, line-in, headphones
>     >                                                                    -
>     digital
>     > IO
>     >                                                                    -
>     > potentiometer for volume control
>     >
>     > I installed the latest snapshot using ubuntu's automated script (I
>     manually
>     > verified that it's the latest) and used model=auto. The results were the
>     same
>     > when I tried it few months ago:
>     >    - "Front" controls the front speakers                            OK
>     >    - "Front" also controls headphones                             
>     problem
>     >    - "Headphones" slider does not control anything           problem
>     >    - No control slider for the build-in sub-woofer               
>     problem
>     >    - microphones working (external and internal)               OK
>     >    - potentiometer for volume control not working             problem
>     >    - Line-in not tested, digital IO not tested                      not
>     tested
>     >    - jack sensing on the headphones is not working          problem
>     >    - jack sensing on microphone and line in not tested      not tested
>     >
>     > Attached to the message you can find the output from alsa-info.
>    
>     Hm, how about model=fujitsu-pi2515 or model=fujitsu-xa3530 option?
>     Just a wild guess from the PCI SSID, though.
> 
>     Takashi
> 
>