[alsa-devel] [patch] Fix headphone automute on Asus G50Vt laptops

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:21:52 -0400,
Solomon Peachy wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > 
> > > There's still the problem that the 'speaker' and the 'headphone' playback 
> > > mixer switch affecting both outputs instead of just the one, and I'm not 
> > > sure why -- If I toggle the 'OUT' pin on node 0x14 (speaker) and 0x21 
> > > (headphone) it only affects that particular output.  Same for their mute 
> > > controls.
> > 
> > That's weird.  So, changing the amp of only one of NIDs 0x02 or 0x03
> > influences really on both outputs...?
> 
> That's just it -- there's something going on here that I don't 
> understand -- The mute swiches are defined as:
> 
> HDA_CODEC_MUTE("Speaker Playback Switch", 0x14, 0x0, HDA_OUTPUT),
> HDA_CODEC_MUTE("Headphone Playback Switch", 0x21, 0x0, HDA_OUTPUT),
> 
> If manually toggle these pins using hda-analyzer, only that specifc 
> output is disabled/enabled.  But if I use alsamixer to toggle these 
> switches, both outputs are disabled/enabled.  I don't know enough about 
> the bowels of the ALSA codebase to even theorize why this could be 
> happening (though I am using the v1.0.22 userspace stuff against a 
> 1.0.23 kernel stack -- or maybe pulseaudio is mucking with something?)

Hm, this doesn't appear on emulator, so I can't say what could be wrong.
Try a naked system without PA once, just to be sure.

> > Another thing you can try is to just use model=auto.
> > With the latest version, it should work relatively well.
> 
> I've never specified a model=xxxx argument.  Leaving model=xxxx off 
> should be the same thing as model=auto, right?
> (and by latest do you mean git head?)

No, in your case, the specific model quirk is chosen.
You need to pass model=auto explicitly.

> In any case, the 'take3' patch is such an improvement over the former 
> state of affairs that in my opinion it should be applied -- we can 
> always apply another patch once the mute wonkiness is figued out.

Yes.


thanks,

Takashi