Re: [Fwd: HP DV4 1155 SE - No Sound through, speakers...]

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:25:15 -0600,
Guy Stalnaker wrote:
> 
> Herton and Takashi,
> 
> I can confirm that compiling and installing the latest snapshot of 
> alsa-drivers, adding "model=hp-dv5" to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and 
> running hda-verb with the parameters Takashi indicates DOES result in 
> sound from the onboard, internal speakers on my Hewlitt Packard dv4 1225 
> Pavilion Entertainment PC.
> 
> The mute on headphone use does not work, but that's okay by me for now.

Good.  Could you try the very latest alsa-driver-snapshot tarball?
Herton's patch is already included.  If your PCI SSID matches, it
should work as is.  If not, please run alsa-info.sh with --no-upload 
option and attach the generated file.


> I think you're on the right track in diagnosing the problem and it's 
> solution.
> 
> Thank you very, very much for helping us.  I know it'll likely be a 
> while before the solution actually makes it into distributions, but at 
> the least I can use my sound apps without having to plug my laptop into 
> something to hear what's playing.  Kinda defeats the notion of having a 
> laptop if one has to keep it plugged in.
> 
> Do either of you mind if I collate notes from the posts exchanged on 
> alsa-devel and post them on the Ubuntu forums?  There are a lot of other 
> HP users who have posted about the same problem.  It's likely they have 
> no idea the resource available to them in the alsa-devel archives.

Sure, it's an open mailing list, so feel free to cite the thread.



Takashi

> BEST regards,
> 
> Guy S.
> 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:16:21 -0500
> > From: Tim Barnette <tim.barnette@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [Fwd: HP DV4 1155 SE - No Sound through
> > 	speakers...]
> > To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> > Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jean-Pierre Andr?
> > 	<jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr>
> > Message-ID:
> > 	<b71cdde20902131116l4c7da119s6c51a67e37371ebe@mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > 
> > Takashi, I was able to build hda-verb and when I executed the command below,
> > it responded with:
> > nid=0xd, verb=0x707, param=0x40
> > value=0x0
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> At Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:17:03 -0500,
> >> Tim Barnette wrote:
> >>> Thanks, Takashi. I made this change and rebooted.
> >>>
> >>> I noticed right away the mute light is no longer on... but still no sound
> >>> through speakers, only headphones..
> >>>
> >>> /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/model
> >>> contains
> >>> hp-dv5,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>,<NULL>
> >>>
> >>> attached is the alsa-info.txt you requested..
> >> Did you try the latest alsa-driver snapshot?
> >>
> >> If it still doesn't work, I guess this is a BIOS problem.
> >> The other HP dv laptops show the widget 0x0d as the speaker while
> >> yours is unused.
> >>
> >> Try to run:
> >>        hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x0d SET_PIN_WID 0x40
> >>
> >>
> >> Takashi
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:22:00 -0500
> > From: Tim Barnette <tim.barnette@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [Fwd: HP DV4 1155 SE - No Sound through
> > 	speakers...]
> > To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> > Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jean-Pierre Andr?
> > 	<jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr>
> > Message-ID:
> > 	<b71cdde20902131122q16eb7e44u92daf2a4c9500bd0@mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > 
> > ..And it worked!  I now have sound!  Can you tell me what I actually did
> > here?
> 
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