From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manuel Naranjo Subject: Re: Possible regression on Sigmatel 9205 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:23:24 -0300 Message-ID: <48F5FCDC.1010509@aircable.net> References: <48F4AD76.8010409@aircable.net> <48F5F527.7050802@embeddedalley.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.149]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79892472D for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:23:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 21so939856eyc.56 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:23:33 -0700 (PDT) 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, Matthew Ranostay List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai escribi=F3: > At Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:14:49 -0300, > Manuel Naranjo wrote: > = >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Matthew Ranostay >> wrote: >> = >>> Manuel Naranjo wrote: >>> = >>>>>> Hello everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry to interrupt you all, but I had been trying to get the digital= mic >>>>>> of my Dell Inspiron 1521 for the last 5 days without any sucess. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm running kernel 2.6.27 with included ALSA, I also tried GIT alsa,= and >>>>>> the result is the same, the mic works, but the volume is so damn low >>>>>> that there's no way to hear it. >>>>>> >>>>>> I checked dell's windows drivers and my board belongs to the M4_8 li= ne >>>>>> and not to the M4_2 as suggested in alsa source. I also did a diff >>>>>> between M4_2 and M4_8 and there are some differences, specially in G= PIO. >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't know what else to do now, I had tried everything. Last worki= ng >>>>>> alsa was 1.15 if I'm not wrong, but I'm not able to backport 1.15 to= the >>>>>> new kernel, for some reason it fails to compile. >>>>>> = >>>>> Do you have "Digital" volume adjusted properly (in the control name >>>>> "Digital Capture Volume")? >>>>> Usually this should be in exactly middle, which corresponds to 0dB. >>>>> = >>>> Yep I did. I guess you're tired of stupid support requests. Don't >>>> worry I think I know what I'm doing very well. Tried with lots of >>>> different model options for the module too, none worked. >>>> >>>> >>>> = >>>>> Anyway, please show the alsa-info.sh output with --no-upload option. >>>>> This will tell us more detailed information. >>>>> = >>>> Sure, I'm attaching 2 version. One is by not passing any argument to >>>> the module after a fresh boot, the other one is by using >>>> model=3Ddell-m42 which should be mine according to my PID. BTW there a= re >>>> lots of bug tickets opened for this card over the net, most related to >>>> Ubuntu and kernel > 2.6.24 >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Manuel >>>> = >>> I only see the 'Digital Capture Volume' in the no parameters output. >>> You generally need to run 'arecord -f cd foo.wav' to load the digital s= oftvol mixer. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Matt Ranostay >>> = >> Sorry, ok I did that. With pulseaudio running calling to arecord >> fails. >> = > > Maybe a bug of pulse alsa-plugin I posted today? > > > Takashi > > = I just thought it could be pulse. Where's the bug report? I would like = to take a look, maybe I can help.