From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: Major reworks on patch_via.c (TESTERS WANTED) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:01:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4E006BEC.7010202@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D51D24424 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:01:55 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4E006BEC.7010202@canonical.com> 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: David Henningsson Cc: Raymond Yau , ALSA Development Mailing List , alex.baldacchino.alsasub@gmail.com, haraldwelte@viatech.com, lydiawang List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:01:16 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 2011-06-20 17:06, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as there have many problems reported for VIA codecs, I started looking > > at the driver code, and decided to rework on it. > > Excellent initiative, thanks! > > > The current development is found in sound git tree topic/via-cleanup > > branch: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git > > > > You can pull into the latest Linus tree from topic/via-cleanup > > branch: > > # this is the vanilla tree > > % cd linux-2.6 > > % git pull \ > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git \ > > topic/via-cleanup > > The tree as of today, is now also available for easy testing for Ubuntu > users: Just download and install > http://people.canonical.com/~diwic/temp/alsa-hda-dkms-viacleanup_0.1_all.deb > (works at least on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04), reboot and test. Thanks! > > But, the driver isn't tested with real machines, yet. That is, I need > > testers with real machines. > > > > Could VIA machine owners take a look at these commits and test it if > > possible? Especially, I'd like to know whether the headphone > > auto-mute works in this form or not. > > I have tested the new driver code on a machine here, and automute does > work. There is however no enable/disable automute yet, as Realtek has. Right. This will be for future. > There are no input jack devices either (i e those we're debating in the > other thread). I haven't tracked this fully yet; can anyone give a short summary and alsa-info.sh output of the affected system? > On the input side I notice a minor thing: "Front Mic Playback Volume" > has an unneccessary index on it. Well, the Front mic is actually an > internal mic, but that's BIOS lying to us, I guess. Fixed now in topic/via-cleanup branch. Also the smart51 detection and some output-path initializations were fixed. > Otherwise it seems to work fine here, so well done! :-) > > > Also, if anyone has alsa-info.sh outputs of VIA codecs, please let me > > know. It'd be very helpful for debugging, since I can check it via > > hda-emu with alsa-info.sh output. For now, I have the files of only > > VT1702, VT1708S, VT1718S, VT1828S and VT2020 codecs. The alsa-info.sh > > outputs of other VIA codecs would be greatly appreciated. > > Alsa-info for the machine I have here will follow shortly. Thanks, that's appreciated. Takashi