Re: Support for ALC662 on FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO Li3710

[Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>]

Takashi Iwai wrote, On 07/27/2009 12:10 PM:
> At Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:04:22 +0200,
> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>    
>> Takashi Iwai wrote, On 07/27/2009 08:14 AM:
>>      
>>> At Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:39:28 +0200,
>>> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Takashi Iwai wrote, On 07/26/2009 10:50 AM:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> At Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:54:24 +0200,
>>>>> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> On a friends FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO Li3710 10601011427 sound didn't work
>>>>>> with kernel-PAE-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i686
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> How about with the latest alsa-driver snapshot?
>>>>>        ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> I looked at your sound-2.6.git tree and found no quirk for this card
>>>> (AFAICS) and assumed that it hadn't been reported and fixed yet.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> When no quirk is set, the automatic mode is used as default.
>>> And, it's possible that the automatic mode has been fixed in the
>>> upstream.  That's why I asked to test with the latest one.
>>> We should avoid any device-specific quirk as much as possible, but
>>> rather fix the automatic parser.
>>>
>>>        
>> Ok, if you think that would be possible. I assumed that it was broken
>> beond repair.
>>      
...
>>>>> Also, please give alsa-info.sh output.  Run with --no-upload and attach
>>>>> the generated file.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> I became aware of that command after having visited my friend. I have
>>>> output of dmesg and  lshal and lspci - is that sufficient?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> No
>>>        
>> Ok, thanks for the hints to help me understand.
>>
>> I will try alsa-drivers-snapshot and alsa-info.sh next time I get access
>> to that computer - that will probably take more than a month.
>>      
> OK, let me know any results.
>    

Ok, I got access to the machine and tested successfully. The ALC662 on 
this machine works with the latest snapshot, so I assume that it 
eventually will start working with vanilla upstream kernels - somewhere 
between 2.6.30 and 2.6.32.

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=c72a5f49d7f21b99173358a421ea9e0f18898810

Thanks!

/Mads