From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobin Davis Subject: Re: no front speaker sound with ALC262 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:14:01 -0700 Message-ID: <1206130441.4863.133.camel@razman.gruemaster.com> References: <165af2360802221645p9fa6bb0y3a5573caa7bcdbd7@mail.gmail.com> <47BF84BF.702@versatile.com> <47BF8500.1050802@versatile.com> <7D68F908-875D-4EDE-B25D-CCBDD4E4A339@gmail.com> <47DEA53B.4030207@versatile.com> <1205778900.27317.160.camel@razman.gruemaster.com> <47DEC0BD.5090403@versatile.com> <1205781169.27317.165.camel@razman.gruemaster.com> <47DECB8E.7060007@versatile.com> <1205792180.27317.188.camel@razman.gruemaster.com> <47DFBF93.6060308@versatile.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from iron2.pdx.net (iron2.pdx.net [69.64.224.71]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5C12443E for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:14:04 +0100 (CET) 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: Matthew R Hurne , Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Everything is set in motion for me to get an eval unit. I should see it in about a week. As soon as it comes in, I'll hit the ground running, and see what I can figure out. Tobin On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 14:24 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:11:47 -0400, > Matthew R Hurne wrote: > > > > Tobin Davis wrote: > > > Ok, it looks like it may be a couple of weeks out, but they are more > > > than happy to get me a unit. Their sales staff has been bugging for > > > Linux support for 6 months apparently. > > > > > > In the mean time, if you can get me that output, I can at least start > > > making a dent on this. From the photo, it looks like you have a speaker > > > jack (green) , line-in (blue), and mic (pink), plus speakers and mic > > > built in? I'll review the online documents again to be sure. > > > > > > Tobin > > > > We put some pressure on Tangent to get Linux audio working, and the tech. support guys I spoke with were clearly clueless. :-( > > > > I have attached the relevant output from dmesg, and a new alsa-info.sh output. > > In your case, the driver cannot work as is because the hardware tells > that you have no speaker output. It's a bug of BIOS. > > As mentioned in the earlier mail, then you'll have to figure out which > pin corresponds to the speaker output actually manually by trial and > error. This requires some least knowledge of HD-audio codec. See > HD-audio documentation available on intel or other web sites. > > Regarding the words you listed: the HD-audio codec contains small > components (called widgets) that are connected with each other. Each > widget has a unique number id (NID) and has a different role, such as > DAC/ADC, mixer, selector, pin (the actual I/O), etc. Each widget can > get/set certain commands, called verbs. You can see the widgets on > your codec in the codec#* proc file output in alsa-info.sh output. > > > Takashi -- Tobin Davis BOFH excuse #64: CPU needs recalibration