Re: [PATCH 0/2] Subject: [PATCH 0/2] ALSA: usb-audio: Mixer quirks for ASRock X870E Taichi

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Sun, 08 Nov 2026 19:58:36 +0100,
Brian Harring via B4 Relay wrote:
> 
> The ASRock X870E Taichi / Taichi Lite onboard audio (26ce:0a0b, Realtek
> ALC4082) has its headphone volume control misassigned to the rear
> output, resulting in the rear output being full volume and only
> mutable, and the headphones falling back to software control.
> 
> Patch 1 uses the existing ALC4080 map to correct the assignment. This is
> a fix: the headphones get their actual hardware control, and the rear
> output falls back to software.
> 
> Patch 2 adds a hardware volume control for the rear output through the
> ESS ES9219 DAC behind it.
> 
> Validation was against alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.16 and a 7.3.3 kernel. The
> resultant changes to the PipeWire sinks are below:
> 
> 7.3.3:
>   SPDIF       HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
>   Speaker     HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
>   Headphones  HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
> 
> with remap:
>   SPDIF       HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
>   Speaker     HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
>   Headphones  HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
> 
> with remap + ES9219:
>   SPDIF       HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
>   Speaker     HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
>   Headphones  HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
> ---
> Brian Harring (2):
>       ALSA: usb-audio: Use ALC4080 mixer map for ASRock X870E Taichi
>       ALSA: usb-audio: Add ES9219 speaker volume for ASRock X870E Taichi

There have been a couple of issues reported by Sashiko.
Could you take a look?


thanks,

Takashi