Re: snd-hda-intel no front mute switch

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:01:47 -0800,
Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:47:54 -0800,
> > Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> >   
> >> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>     
> >>> At Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:48:34 -0800,
> >>> Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Not sure if I have my configurations correct, but after
> >>>> pulling the latest git, I notice that my mixer has no switch to mute
> >>>> the "front", or external speaker on a macbook pro(ati chipset);
> >>>> other than that the sound sounds really good.
> >>>> (solution I guess: plug-in headphones, and mute headphone option);
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Could you run alsa-info.sh with --no-upload option on both old and
> >>> new kernels, and attach the generated files to compare?
> >>> The script is found in
> >>>     http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
> >>>
> >>> You can find some other information regarding HD-audio in
> >>> Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Takashi
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> After adjusting my .config,
> >> I am getting a speaker option to mute
> >> the external speakers, as well as the headphones.
> >> the options that I added were:
> >>
> >> SND_HRTIMER [=y]
> >> SND_HDA_RECONFIG [=y]
> >> SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP [=y]
> >>
> >> before adding these, like what I mentioned
> >> there was no "speaker" option(or "front");
> >> As for the sound itself, I'll have to
> >> blast myself with some good tunes,
> >> and see If I hear or experience any anomalies.
> >> (then wakeup the next day unable to hear);
> >> : )
> >>     
> >
> > Good to hear that it works now.
> > Could you check which config was broken exactly?
> > The config items above should be irrelevant with the (first) codec
> > parsing, at least.
> >
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> >   
> After thinking back with what I did,
> I was using 2.6.28-rc9 then(if I recall);
> did a git-pull monday morning.
> In the git log I remember seeing this:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb10ea549fdc0ab2dd8988adab5bf40b4fa642f3
> then after compiling and rebooting
> I noticed the mixer had changed.(thus seeing the no button for "front").
> then after a few hours I reverted back to 2.6.28-rc9.
> waited a few days and did a git-pull Wednesday morning,changed my .config
> (after sending the original post);
> then noticed that the "front" had changed to "speaker" on the mixer itself.
> (telling myself "man I must be seeing things");
> 
> As for the .config options you're right, it doesn't make difference.
> As for seeing any commits after sunday that might have fixed this
> (not sure) I see loads of commits,
> I can't keep up with this.
> 
> I think the best thing for me to do, is to not say anything,
> until after all of this merging is done,(man santa is here!)
>  then asses the situation.
> 
> Don't mean to cause any heat.

OK, let's see whether Santa really exists and fixed the things
magically :)


thanks,

Takashi