Re: ALSA Intel HDA MacBook

[Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:19:24 -0400,
> Matt Porter wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 04:31:17PM +0200, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>       
>>>> OK then it's somewhat another black magic :)
>>>>
>>>> Linus made a patch to make MacMini to work.  The patch is below (and
>>>> it's already merged to ALSA HG tree, too).
>>>> Could you check whether it works for other Intel Mac models?
>>>> At least, we need to check that it doesn't break something...
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> I finally found the time to test this patch on my Macbook Pro (I'm
>>> running 2.6.18-rc2, which includes this patch).
>>>
>>> I have the following results:
>>> - "Side" controls internal speakers, if no headphone is plugged
>>> - "Front" controls headphones
>>> - Line-in is always set as output ("Line In as output" has no effect),
>>> "Center" controls line-"out" left channel, "LFE" the right channel.
>>> - "Surround" has no effect.
>>>
>>> However, the internal mic doesn't work anymore (whatever value I put in
>>> "Capture", "Input Source" and "Mux")...
>>>       
>> Hrm, I finally caught up on this stuff after holiday.  I've got the
>> spec, obviously, and even better I have a macbook pro (not yet running
>> linux) so I can do some direct work on this. I'll see what I can sort
>> out.
>>     
>
> That's great.
>
> I still wonder how we can distinguish the different intel mac models.
> Apparently all models have the same PCI SSID :-<
>   
Maybe by using DMI data? That's what I used for the accelerometer driver...

Best regards,

Nicolas

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