Fixing sound on Asus UX534F / some UX533 models

Thu Jul 9 11:29:54 CEST 2020

Hi,

On 7/9/20 10:53 AM, Kailang wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Please let it a try.

Thank you.

Kai Heng Feng, can you build an ubuntu kernel with Kailang's patch included?

It seems that most reporters of this issue are in:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1850439

So if you can post a link to an Ubuntu test kernel there, then hopefully
we can get some feedback on this patch.

I'll attach the patch to the bugzilla.kernel.org bug and ask the
reporters there to test as well.

Regards,

Hans

> Kailang.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2020 9:25 PM
>> To: Kailang <kailang at realtek.com>; Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
>> Cc: c <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org;
>> nuno.dias at gmail.com; Maxc[錦榮] <maxc at realtek.com>
>> Subject: Re: Fixing sound on Asus UX534F / some UX533 models
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 7/3/20 4:52 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 6/29/20 7:54 AM, Kailang wrote:
>>>> Hi Hans,
>>>>
>>>> The bellowing was Gediminas Aleknavicius (lektuv) mention. (Launchpad
>>>> #173) ==>After running the above commands sound and mic works on both
>> built-in and headset with 2.5mm connector. The model is UX533FTC.
>>>>
>>>> Internal Mic was worked.
>>>
>>> I see and in (Launchpad #174) there is another confirmation that
>>> everything works, this time with an UX534FTC.
>>>
>>> I also got a report from a user in the Red Hat bugzilla about this:
>>>
>>> On an UX534F just these 2 commands are enough to make everything work:
>>>
>>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x500 0xf hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20
>>> 0x400 0x7774
>>>
>>> I'm not entirely sure if using the other 2 commands you gave me are
>>> actively causing problems there, or if they just are not necessary.
>>> I've asked the reporter about this.
>>>
>>> So it looks like some models need just:
>>>
>>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x500 0xf hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20
>>> 0x400 0x7774
>>>
>>> While others need all 4 commands:
>>>
>>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x500 0xf hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20
>>> 0x400 0x7774 hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x500 0x45 hda-verb
>>> /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x400 0x5289
>>>
>>> Kailang, is that enough to write a kernel patch for this? If not what
>>> other info do you need ?
>>
>> A quick follow-up on this, one of the reporters of:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206289
>>
>> Still has a problem with the internal mic not working.
>>
>> He has tried both using all 4 of these:
>>
>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x500 0xf
>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x400 0x7774 hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0
>> 0x20 0x500 0x45 hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x400 0x5289
>>
>> As well as just using:
>>
>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x500 0xf
>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x20 0x400 0x7774
>>
>> Which some users report is enough for them.
>> His exact modelis "UX533FTC-A8221R"
>>
>> Still the 2 / 4 commands (depending on the exact model) do help for various
>> other users/models so it would be good to get these added as fixups to the
>> kernel.
>>
>> The specific model with the internal-mic issue will need further examination.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 9:19 PM
>>>>> To: Kailang <kailang at realtek.com>; Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
>>>>> Cc: c <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org;
>>>>> nuno.dias at gmail.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: Fixing sound on Asus UX534F / some UX533 models
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/23/20 12:02 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/4/20 8:49 AM, Kailang wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Hans de Goede,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please test below.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x500 0xf hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0
>>>>> 0x20
>>>>>>> 0x400 0x7774 hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x500 0x45 hda-verb
>>>>>>> /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x400 0x5289
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think Headset Mic will work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you, and sorry for being somewhat slow to respond.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not have access to the affected hardware myself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've asked users who have reported bugs about this to test these
>>>>>> setting and report back in the following bug-reports:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1850439
>>>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206289
>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1834751
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will follow-up when I have heard back from the bug-reporters.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I've gotten the first feedback. I ve asked the users to test the
>>>>> following after running the 4 suggested hda-verb commands:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Speakers
>>>>> 2. Headphones output
>>>>> 3. Internal mic.
>>>>> 4. Headset mic. (using a phone headset with builtin mic with a
>>>>> single T-R-R-S
>>>>> connector)
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got feedback from a user with a UX533FTC-A8221R laptop:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Speakers: works
>>>>> 2. Headphones output: works
>>>>> 3. Internal mic: doesn't work
>>>>> 4. Headset mic: works
>>>>>
>>>>> So things are looking ok, but we still have some work to do to get
>>>>> the internal mic to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kailang do you have any suggestions for getting the internal mic to work?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hans
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
>>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 8:42 PM
>>>>>>>> To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Kailang <kailang at realtek.com>; c
>>>>>>>> <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org;
>>>>>>>> nuno.dias at gmail.com
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Fixing sound on Asus UX534F / some UX533 models
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:51:49 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Kai-Heng Feng, Takashi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I see that you are on the notification list for this bug:
>>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1850439
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So you may have already seen this. Some owners of affected
>>>>>>>>> laptops (which have non working speakers / headphone output
>>>>>>>>> atm), have done some heroic debugging work and come up with a
>>>>>>>>> set of
>>>>>>>>> 2 hda-verb commands which fix this.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm not all that familiar with writing hda quirks, so I was
>>>>>>>>> hoping that one of you 2 can come up with a patch to fix this at
>>>>>>>>> the kernel level.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This would also resolve these 2 bugs, which I believe are the
>>>>>>>>> same bug
>>>>>>>>> really:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206289
>>>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1834751
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Adding verbs are trivial and it can be done even without patching
>>>>>>>> kernel but providing by a patch via patch module option of
>>>>>>>> snd-hda-intel
>>>>> driver.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But, before moving forward, I'd like to confirm about the
>>>>>>>> correctness (and the
>>>>>>>> safeness) of those verbs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kailang, could you check the COEF verbs mentioned in the bug
>>>>>>>> entry
>>>>> above?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Takashi
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>
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