Re: [RFE] Power down AC'97 when muted

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:56:57 +0100,
Pierre Ossman wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> >
> >It's BUG #667, right?
> >	https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=667
> >
> >I uploaded a test patch there.  Please give it a try.
> >
> >  
> >
> Yup, seems to be the same thing. I tried the patch and got it working 
> after a few tweaks:
> 
> * None of the parts applied cleanly. You had a strange path to 
> ac97_codec.h and you also seemed to have a newer version of the driver 
> than I had (2.6.9 here).

It's to alsa-kernel tree.  It's not to the linux kernel tree.

> * My card had a different subsystem vendor that in the patch:
>         {
>                 .vendor = 0x0e11,
>                 .device = 0x0860,
>                 .name = "HP/Compaq nx7010",
>                 .type = AC97_TUNE_MUTE_LED
>         },

Added.

> * The new function called set_single not set_double which caused all 
> kinds of strange effects.
> 
> I also noted another "feature". The quirk seems to take some time to go 
> into effect since the LED doesn't light up if the mute is enabled 
> directly after the module is loaded (done by scripts in FC3 during 
> module load).

Fixed on CVS version.


Takashi


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