Re: How can you tell if the speaker jack on your sound card has anything plugged into it???

From: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>
To: Robert Jarzmik <rjarzmik@free.fr>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Sean Thayne <sthayne@summitmediagroupllc.com>
Subject: Re: How can you tell if the speaker jack on	your	sound card has anything plugged into it???
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:32:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209159162.32245.63.camel@razman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxt9k5ge.fsf@free.fr>

The snd_hda_intel driver does this internally to mute the speakers when
headphones are plugged in.  Ditto for front mic.  But you are right, we
need a standard way of tracking this.  I am exploring the HAL interface
now to see what I can learn from it.  And most sound chips have an
insert detection mechanism.  Usually they are wired to specific jacks,
but sometimes they just register a change in plug state, and read the
jack's impedance levels to know which jack is used.  It is documented in
the Sigmatel/IDT, Realtek, and Analog Devices codec PRMs.

Tobin

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 23:08 +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:

> Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> writes:
> 
> > There's currently no standard way of getting this information from user
> > space even where the hardware provides it.
> Isn't the event api switch "SW_HEADPHONE_INSERT" standard ?
> I thought it was designed for such use.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, the Neo teams handles it that way, as I do for the mio :
>  -> input_report_switch(mioa701_evdev, SW_HEADPHONE_INSERT, val);
> 
> --
> Robert
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