From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Green Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 8920g / snd-hda-intel / ALC889 Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 23:06:50 +0100 Message-ID: <481F84FA.4060307@warmcat.com> References: <480C8260.70501@warmcat.com> <480CDC26.3010506@warmcat.com> <480DC787.9070208@warmcat.com> <480DCBC6.3050203@warmcat.com> <480FA5D5.9090208@warmcat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailserver.mog.warmcat.com (purr.warmcat.com [87.106.142.209]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6EAE24538 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 00:07:00 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Build CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y and you'll have /dev/snd/hwC0D0 device. > With the hda-verb program in the URL below, you can exec the verb on > the fly: > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/misc/hda-verb-0.2.tar.bz2 Thanks for the hints and the applet... after some meddling around I found the magic incantations to fire up the amp / speakers on this laptop are to force model=acer-aspire in /etc/modprobe.conf, then using the applet from the URL quoted above: ./hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x15 SET_EAPD_BTLENABLE 2 I confirmed stereo operation... it doesn't react to headphone insertion, plays audio through speakers and headphone jack in that case. Didn't try 5.1 (this laptop has a 5.1 speaker set) yet but I wouldn't be surprised if that was trouble too. Still this is waaaay better than silence! Thanks again for the help. -Andy