Re: T61P sound issue

[Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:16:08PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> [ added Takashi ]
> 
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> > > > > > Could anyone make T61P's ICH8 sound controller to work properly?
> > Good that there's a lot of people using T61p, it's a good machine.
> > I'll upgrade my BIOS and try again the crappy sound.
> 
> I have just bought X61s, and it seems to have the very same soundcard as 
> your T61p does:
>
> The sound also doesn't work with 2.6.24 (tried modprobing the 
> snd-hda-intel with 'model=thinkpad', didn't make any difference). The 
> mixer settings seem to be correct, but there is no sound.
> 

Hmm.. sound works just fine for me on my X61s (model #7668-CTO)
running 2.6.24.  

I do have this private patch applied --- maybe it makes a difference
for you?  I don't think it should make a difference, but....

						- Ted


commit c9001b03378048cad0f5c4f87dbb97fff1f80c51
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Wed Jan 9 05:14:14 2008 -0500

    hda_intel suspend latency: shorten codec read
    
    not sleeping for every codec read/write but doing a short udelay and
    a conditional reschedule has cut suspend+resume latency by about 1
    second on my T60.
    
    The patch also fixes the unexpected codec-connection errors that
    happen more often in the new power-save mode:
        http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/8/255
        http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9332
    
    This had been applied, and then reverted due to problems.  See commit
    d238998fbfa49f30b02f0a5de5294ca53c58348c
    
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
index 3fa0f97..62b9fb3 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -555,7 +555,8 @@ static unsigned int azx_rirb_get_response(struct hda_codec *codec)
 		}
 		if (!chip->rirb.cmds)
 			return chip->rirb.res; /* the last value */
-		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+		udelay(10);
+		cond_resched();
 	} while (time_after_eq(timeout, jiffies));
 
 	if (chip->msi) {