[alsa-devel] [PATCH] - fix speaker output for toshiba nb205 netbooks

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:06:11 -0500,
Nickolas wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:14:32 +0100
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:58:32 -0500,
> > Nickolas wrote:
> > > 
> > > this is a quick fix i wrote up a couple days ago to fix speaker
> > > output on the Realtek ALC272 codec present in toshiba nb205
> > > netbooks.  presently, speaker output doesn't work at all on this
> > > model, regardless of settings in the mixer.  this is because the
> > > current driver thinks the speaker is at nid 0x0c instead of the
> > > correct 0x17.  i'm not too familiar with this hardware, so i'm not
> > > sure that this patch won't have any negative effects for other
> > > hardware.  it also seems like a messy way of fixing the problem.
> > > any comments or suggestions are welcome, as is testing for those who
> > > have this board.  diffed against the latest git.
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch.  The change looks safe to me.
> > 
> > But I'm still wondering whether model=auto doesn't work for this device.
> > Could you try it with the latest driver?
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Takashi
> > 
> 
> hmm, i feel stupid.  so, it works with model=auto, but why is that not implied when the model parameter isn't specified on the command line?

OK, that's good to hear.  IIRC, the quirk was there because it didn't work
with model=auto, at least, at that time.

I guess it's time to back to auto option again.  I'll fix now.

Thanks for quick testing!


Takashi