Re: [PATCH] Re: ALSA HDA Intel stoped to work in 2.6.16-*

[Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>]

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On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:33 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:21:13 +0000 (UTC),
> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> > 
> > Takashi Iwai <tiwai <at> suse.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Daniel, how "incorrect" do you mean exactly?
> > > 
> > > As you cited, the above patch was added for the request for the
> > > specific model, so the patch itself is correct per definition.  What
> > > wrong could be the choice of the model option by the original poster,
> > > which I cannot judge.
> > > 
> > > Of course I have no objection to fix the model entry at all, but I
> > > need a more proper justification.
> > 
> > The master volume control appeared to be affecting the wrong control line,
> 
> Is it so with the latest 2.6.29 kernel?
> (Also you aren't accessing pulse plugin, right?)

Was using alsamixer to test, without pulseaudio running. The underlying
issue is unchanged in three years of commits.

> > and
> > there was no way to turn off IEC958, which appeared to be on by default.
> 
> This should work.
> 
> 	% amixer -Dhw:0 set IEC958 mute

It does work, but only after the patch I submitted (or by using the
equivalent module argument).