From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759494AbZACKJJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 05:09:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755241AbZACKI4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 05:08:56 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49883 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753013AbZACKIz (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 05:08:55 -0500 Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:08:52 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: "Justin P. Mattock" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: snd-hda-intel no front mute switch In-Reply-To: <495E649B.7030006@gmail.com> References: <495B31E2.6000801@gmail.com> <495CF3BA.8080403@gmail.com> <495E649B.7030006@gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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