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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 04 May 2015 01:53:37 +0200,
Gabriele Martino wrote:
> 
> On 30/04/2015 07:51, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:40:30 +0200,
> > Gabriele Martino wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> Finally got it.
> I'm not sure about overriding the BIOS configuration: there is a new
> version which fixes all the unconnected pins.
> There is only a small issue: the internal speakers are now marked as
> "Line out", which seems to mess up the "Ports" section in Pulseaudio.

Hm, this can be changed via a proper pin config?

In anyway, I'm traveling in this week and next week, so cannot debug
the things.  Will check it later once when I back from vacation.  Just
ping me.


thanks,

Takashi