[alsa-devel] Realtek alc269 questions

[David Henningsson]

2010-07-26 12:29, Takashi Iwai skrev:
> At Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:01:50 +0200,
> David Henningsson wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to fix the sound on some Dell Optiplex machines, which are
>> running the ALC269 chip. I can "fix" them with some hda-verb commands,
>> but that won't get me auto-mute, so I'll have to make a model (or
>> possibly more than one) for them.
> 
> What is actually a problem?

It varies between the different models, but most problems I think come
from that pin NIDs aren't the same as the auto-parser (or any of the
models) assume.

This causes playback, recording, auto-mute etc to fail.

In addition, a minor issue is that one of the models are being
mislabeled as ALC259.

>> Anyway, I have a pair of questions:
>>
>> 1) In dmesg, there is a "SKU not ready" message at startup. What is SKU,
>> and is it a problem that it is not ready?
> 
> Realtek codecs suppose that the device PCI SSID is set up for
> indicating hardware functionalities.  This is Realtek-specific, and
> most vendors don't follow.  The driver spews some messages when the
> SSID isn't compliant.
> 
>> 2) There are two DACs, and all models so far seem to use NID 0x03 for
>> headphones and NID 0x02 for everything else. But is there a single
>> stream going through the controller and then splitted into two on the
>> codec side, or is just one of the DACs activated at a time, depending on
>> the jack sensing state?
> 
> Both DACs use the same single stream at the same time.

Thanks for your answers!

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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