Re: realtek ALC272 support

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:21:55 -0400,
Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:41:08 -0400
> Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:08:21 +0200
> > Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> [...]
> > > > > > > > > At Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:24:15 -0400,
> > > > > > > > > Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > Hi Kailang,
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > I noticed that your name was on the ALC272 support
> > > > > > > > > > patch for ALSA intel-hda.  This patch basically sets
> > > > > > > > > > ALC272 to use (mostly) the same code as ALC662.  I
> > > > > > > > > > have two machines that have ALC272, and both of them
> > > > > > > > > > need verb tables in order to function.  I'm wondering
> > > > > > > > > > if ALC662 should really be used..
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > Here's one -
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy-lum.git;a=commitdiff;h=7662834bb9a78d244c6d7ee43358c14c94d249c9
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > This isn't the final version of the patch (there are
> > > > > > > > > > further commits I made in order to support headphone
> > > > > > > > > > mic stuff), but it gives you an idea of the codec
> > > > > > > > > > values. The other is:
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy-lum.git;a=commitdiff;h=72ff85641a30dc7ac502e2ea01bf14a04efb4cf1
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > All of these leave me wonder if there's a specific
> > > > > > > > > > patch_alc272 function that could be written to rid
> > > > > > > > > > ourselves of these specific quirks.  Are there
> > > > > > > > > > machines with ALC272 that are functional with the
> > > > > > > > > > current ALSA code?
> > > > > > > > > 
> [...]
> > > 
> > > Could you try sound-unstable tree a bit later again?
> > > I found a bug in my patch, and fixed and updated GIT tree now.
> > > At least, the headphone plugging should work now.
> > > 
> > > The mic auto-detection still doesn't work with model=auto, though.
> > > So, I'm going to take your patch anyway later.  But I just wanted
> > > to be sure that the current tree could work somehow better...
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just updated and tried the current tree; still no sound/headphone
> > output.  :(
> 
> 
> Ok, I believe I've made some progress on this.  The problem appears to
> be related to the autoconfig handling of the line out nids.  The
> current code ends up with something like the following:
> 
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3833: autoconfig: line_outs=1
> (0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3837:    speaker_outs=0
> (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3841:    hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3842:    mono: mono_out=0x0
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3853: inputs: mic=0x18, fmic=0x19,
> line=0x0, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0
> 
> However, NID 0x17 is actually a speaker_out.  The code that checks for
> line_outs in snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config() unsets the speaker_out and
> uses that NID for a line_out.  For whatever reason, this breaks things
> (no sound output, no headphone out).

That's intentional, and the driver checks that case, too.
Please check the latest sound git tree and see the kernel message.
You should have messages like "realtek: ..."


Takashi