[alsa-devel] hda-jack-retask on CentOS 6.5

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:54:22 -0500,
Chris Pemberton wrote:
> 
> I could not find an rpm containing "hda-jack-retask" for CentOS 6.5, nor 
> could I compile it from source as it requires newer libraries than 
> CentOS provides.  I therefore booted into Ubuntu 14.04, ran 
> hdajackretask, and saved the pin reassignments that fix my particular 
> laptop.
> 
>  From Ubuntu 14.14 /lib/firmware/hda-jack-retask.fw
> 
> [codec]
> 0x111d76e0 0x103c190d 0
> 
> [pincfg]
> 0x0a 0x03a11020
> 0x0b 0x0321101f
> 0x0c 0x40f000f0
> 0x0d 0x90170152
> 0x0e 0x40f000f0
> 0x0f 0x40f000f0
> 0x10 0x90170151
> 0x11 0xd5a30130
> 0x1f 0x40f000f0
> 0x20 0x40f000f0
> 
> I created the following /etc/modprobe.d/hda-jack-retask.conf in CentOS 6.5:
> 
> options snd-hda-intel 
> patch=hda-jack-retask.fw,hda-jack-retask.fw,hda-jack-retask.fw,hda-jack-retask.fw
> 
> Now when CentOS tries to load the snd-hda-intel module, I get the 
> following error:
> 
> snd_hda_intel: Unknown parameter `patch'
> 
> Is there another method I can use to set the pins?  This is the only way 
> I've managed to get "Beats Audio" working on my HP Envy k025dx.

You need to rebuild your kernel with proper configs.  The patch option
is available via CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER.

BTW, which pin setup is missing?  It's better to add the static fixup
in the kernel code.


Takashi