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From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	nusch88@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Four patches to fixup surround internal speakers on Realtek 88x
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:46:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D74B785.1060000@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hhbbfgtjm.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

On 2011-03-07 10:37, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:22:42 +0100,
> David Henningsson wrote:
>>
>> I spend last Friday together with Bartłomiej Żogała fixing up a long
>> standing issue with Lenovo Y530, which has 4+1 internal speakers on a
>> Realtek 888. And we all want that supported by the auto parser, don't
>> we?
>
> Well, it's a bit flaky.  The current behavior assigning speakers only
> as "Speaker" is intentional.  This is a simplification to avoid the
> conflict with the case where both multiple line-outs and multiple
> speakers are present.

In that case, nothing changes - this code path is not taken, since 
line_out_type wouldn't be AUTO_PIN_SPEAKER_OUT.

> And, in general, I don't like to get rid of "Speaker" notation.  If
> any, we should keep "Speaker" with a channel prefix.

This is indeed tricky, and I think we've stranded on a similar issue 
here once before.

Btw, in the case of this particular machine, the "Front" controls the 
headphones as well, so the name is accidentally correct.

I've even seen a machine where a DAC controlled two out of three fronts 
(e g headphones and line-out but not speaker, or something like that) - 
how would you name that?

Perhaps it is time to start to come up with a more reliable naming 
scheme for 2.6.39 or 2.6.40, that would take into account the more 
trickier combinations as well.

>
>> So here comes the patches. Would be nice to have in 2.6.38.
>
> Sorry, the speaker-change is too intrusive for 2.6.38.
> Since I already sent a pull request yesterday, which is supposed to be
> the final one unless major fixes come up, I'll queue this later with
> stable-kernel tag.

Ok, that works well for me.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07  8:22 [PATCH] Four patches to fixup surround internal speakers on Realtek 88x David Henningsson
2011-03-07  9:37 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-03-07 10:46   ` David Henningsson [this message]
2011-03-07 10:54     ` Takashi Iwai
2011-03-10 16:47       ` Takashi Iwai

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