Re: [PATCH] ALSA: HDA: Fix front mic on Dell Precision M6500

[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>]

2010-08-24 02:57, Raymond Yau skrev:
> 2010/8/24 David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
> 
>> I admit that the best thing would be to make the driver support all
>> three mics, but at this point, the alsa driver can only support two, one
>> called "mic" and one called "front mic". I believe the best choice is to
>> select the internal mic as "front mic" and the mic jack on the laptop as
>> "mic", thus leaving the docking station mic jack non-functional.
>>
>> The behavior without this patch is to select the mic jack on the laptop
>> as "mic" and the mic on the docking station as "front mic", thus leaving
>> the internal mic non-functional in all cases, and that regardless of you
>> have a docking station or not.
>>
>> 2010-08-23 21:07, Jerone Young skrev:
>>> For laptops you would want to take preference of the docking jack over
>>> the interal mic if you are in a docking station.
>>>
>>> So if you do plug into a docking station and you have a microphone in
>>> the docking station, a user would want to use that over the internal
>>> microphone. You wouldn't want the laptop internal mic preferred over the
>>> docking station microphone.
>>>
>>>                               Thanks,
>>>                                       Jerone
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 21:03 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
>>>> The BIOS of Dell Precision M6500 lists both 0x0e and 0x11 as
>>>> front mics, and the driver only supports one front mic. This
>>>> commit adds a quirk for preferring node 0x11 (internal mic) to
>>>> node 0x0e (possibly docking station mic).
>>>>
>>>> Alsa-info reference:
>>>> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/54232083/alsa-info.txt.xyFVpIysHt
>>>>
>>
> 
> There are two ADC , this mean that the correct model should provide two
> capture subdevices instead of one
> 
> Node 0x15 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x1d0541: Stereo
>   Device: name="STAC92xx Analog", type="Audio", device=0
>   Converter: stream=1, channel=0
>   SDI-Select: 0
>   Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
>   Delay: 13 samples
>   Connection: 1
>      0x17
>   Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=0
> Node 0x16 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x1d0541: Stereo
>   Converter: stream=0, channel=0
>   SDI-Select: 0
>   Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
>   Delay: 13 samples
>   Connection: 1
>      0x18
>   Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=0

I don't disagree. Feel free to write a patch for that, I assume Takashi
will take it if it's written well enough and according to his/Linus's
standards.

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