[alsa-devel] Intel HDA / ca0132: support for Alienware 15 Creative Sound Core3D-EX

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:40:30 +0200,
Gabriele Martino wrote:
> 
> On 29/04/2015 20:42, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:42:55 +0200,
> > Gabriele Martino wrote:
> >> On 29/04/2015 15:38, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>> At Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:47:16 +0200,
> >>> Gabriele Martino wrote:
> >>>> Thank you for your explanation.
> >>>> I managed to fix the pin address, but as I told before the jack
> >>>> detection is totally messed up.
> >>>> "hdajacksensetest" fails with:
> >>>> Ioctl call failed with error 16
> >>> The error message looks irrelevant with the patch itself.
> >>> Did you build with proper kernel configs?
> >>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
> >>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=y
> >>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER=y
> >> It should be ok:
> >>
> >> $ grep CONFIG_SND_HDA_ /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -v '^#'
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_DSP_LOADER=y
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_PREALLOC_SIZE=2048
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=y
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_JACK=y
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_PATCH_LOADER=y
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=m
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_I915=y
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132=m
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132_DSP=y
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=m
> >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=60
> > OK, then it's something else.  Errno 16 is EBUSY, so something else
> > must be accessing the same device (e.g. hwdep) and blocking the
> > operation.
> >
> > Are you sure that you never see this error when a kernel is without
> > the patch?
> It was an error on my part, my apologies.
> I did a full kernel clean and rebuild, and the error 16 went away.
> But the jack detection is still broken.
> 
> hdajacksensetest -c 1 -a
> Pin 0x0b (Internal Speaker): present = Yes
> Pin 0x0c (Not connected): present = No
> Pin 0x0d (Not connected): present = No
> Pin 0x0e (Not connected): present = No
> Pin 0x0f (Not connected): present = Yes
> Pin 0x10 (Not connected): present = No
> Pin 0x11 (Black Line In, Left side): present = No
> Pin 0x12 (Internal Mic, Mobile-In): present = No
> Pin 0x13 (Not connected): present = No
> Pin 0x18 (Not connected): present = No
> 
> Pin 0x0f is still reported as not connected, but correctly detects the
> jack if plugged.
> If I turn off and on the "HP/Speaker Auto Detect" in alsamixer while
> "HP/Speaker" is off, the correct output is detected.
> If "HP/Speaker" is on, the behaviour is inconsistent.
> 
> Is there a configuration file? Where can I find the metadata "Black Line
> In, Left side"?
> I don't know if it is related, but pavucontrol detects only the
> "speakers" port.
> On my previous laptop (with Creative Recon 3Di, another ca0132 card) I
> could choose between "speakers and "headphones".

It implies that the whole pin config BIOS provides is buggy.   The
jack color, location, etc, all are parsed from 32bit pin configuration
value for each pin.

You need to correct the pin config and sets it statically in the
driver.  hdajackretask can give you the map and reload it
dynamically.


Takashi