Re: Willing to help!

[Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>]

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I'm the one working on the driver.  For now, email me directly, as I
don't want to flood the list with development patches.

I'll send you a separate email shortly.

Tobin

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 19:09 -0600, John Pierce wrote:

> Hello list, I am not sure where to post this so here goes.
> 
> I just purchased an HP DV9208NR laptop, I installed opensuse 10.2 and
> all worked well except the headphones.  All of the buttons on the
> machine worked, including the mute button.   However, when I plugged
> in my headphones the speakers would not mute and no sound came from
> the headphones.
> 
> In an attempt to fix this, I searched the lists and found another
> users experiences and noticed the following snippet.
> 
> Also some know issues : When headphones are plugged , laptop speakers dont mute.
> ============New Patch Released 01/30/2007 T.Davis Alsa-Users List ==========
> !!Backup your current drivers with following command !!
> tar -zcvf original-drivers.tgz /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/sound
> 
> Now, get the latest release, apply the patch, and build.
> 
> wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2.tar.bz2
> tar -jxf alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2.tar.bz2
> cd alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2/alsa-kernel
> patch -p1
> cd ..
> ./configure --with-debug=detect --with-cards=hda-intel
> make ; make install
> 
> I downloaded the current 1.0.14rc2 and went through the motions of
> configuring, making and make installing.  I removed the modules from
> my original install and then modprobed the snd_hda_intel and now when
> I plug in the headphones they work correctly, that is the speakers
> stop and the headphones start.
> 
> Now the problem, the mute button above the keyboard that used to stay
> blue, and would mute the sound to the speakers, now has changed to
> orange and will not mute any sound.
> 
> I am willing to help the developers debug this if any wish to contact
> me and tell me what they need me to do.
> 
> It wouldn't be the first time I trashed a system and then put it back together.
> 
> Thanks for all of your work.
> 
> 
> 

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Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>

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