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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:33:03 -0500,
Chris Pemberton wrote:
> 
> The laptop left and right speakers work as is: the third "Beats Audio" 
> sub is the only thing needing a fix.  I changed the following:
> 
> 0x0d (Internal Speaker, Front Side) -> Override Internal Speaker (Back)
> 0x10 -> Internal speaker (LFE)

So, just replacing the pin config of NID 0x0d suffices?
Could you give the alsa-info.sh output with that setup?  Then I can
write a patch for adding the configuration statically to the kernel.


thanks,

Takashi

> 
> I recompiled the module per the CentOS wiki; and it failed to load 
> (wrong file type; although it was the _identical _file type).  I then 
> compiled the entire kernel and used the new module with the old kernel; 
> it wouldn't load due to not being signed. Finally found a mainline 
> kernel in the elrepo repo that had the proper snd_hda_intel configured.  
> Works great with the pin configs I provided previously.
> 
> Machine is currently loaded with Fedora 20 and Win7 if you'd like more 
> detailed information.  I was able to download a Win7 driver from HP that 
> supposedly enables Beats Audio for many HP laptops models;  if it could 
> be of any use.
> 
> On 04/28/2014 10:43 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > 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
> 
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