Re: Intel HDA audio on EEE PC 1101HGo

[Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>]

Sometimes it's my impression the beep is not emitted. but I may be wrong. If I determine it, I'll report back.
But the system is stable so far, and I can't find other messages in the dmesg.


Enrico

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:52:22
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>
> Cc: hui.wang@canonical.com, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kailang@realtek.com
> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Intel HDA audio on EEE PC 1101HGo
> 
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 14:49:40 +0100,
> Enrico Mioso wrote:
>>
>> hello Tahaski,
>> hello everyone reading this message.
>>
>> Thank you for the patience you had with me. Now I finally came to set up this system for crash analysis, compiling the kernel with debug informations and frame pointers and so on. I set up kdump also. Unfortunately, I can get no useful output.
>> The last things the system wrote before dying have been reconstructed. I noted down decimal values with the help of my mum. She wrote them down on a piece of paper.
>> I am hitting the following messages:
>> azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x014ba000
>> azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x014ba000
>
> It's reading the output amp on NID 0x14, the speaker pin.  It's weird
> that such a verb triggers the problem.  Usually the unexpected
> behavior is triggered at the widget power up/down.
>
> If the switching to single cmd mode causes an issue, you can disable
> by the patch like below.  This may lead to the continuous errors,
> though.
>
>
> Takashi
>
> ---
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
> index 500878556578..43bf151d8712 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
> @@ -861,6 +861,7 @@ static int azx_rirb_get_response(struct hdac_bus *bus, unsigned int addr,
> 		return -EIO;
> 	}
>
> +#if 0
> 	/* a fatal communication error; need either to reset or to fallback
> 	 * to the single_cmd mode
> 	 */
> @@ -875,6 +876,7 @@ static int azx_rirb_get_response(struct hdac_bus *bus, unsigned int addr,
> 	chip->single_cmd = 1;
> 	hbus->response_reset = 0;
> 	snd_hdac_bus_stop_cmd_io(bus);
> +#endif
> 	return -EIO;
> }
>
>