At Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:22:35 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:10 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Well, first off, you need to figure out the pin mapping, which > > pin-widget NID corresponding to which actual I/O. > > You'd better start from the output jacks than speaker outputs since > > speaker outputs often require the special handling like GPIO and/or > > EAPD. > > > > With hda-verb, you can issue all commands, so free to change the amp > > volume and reconnect the widgets. Jaroslav's hda-analyzer provides a > > better interface (GUI) for such a purpose. > > > > See Documentation/sounds/alsa/HD-Audio.txt in the latest kernel git > > tree. > > Fun, ok. > > > > > Or do they have any external information file like on Windows *.ini? > > > > > > Yes, Info.plist files, but none seem to contain any useful information, > > > what sort of information would you be looking for? > > > > There could be some list of pin ids and flags or sequences. > > At least, *.INI contains a sort of things like that. > > There's some sort of binary information. > > Actually, I played with things a little more, and dug a little deeper > into what the ubuntu forums say, and it turned out that I made a stupid > mistake, I typoed mbp3 as mpb3 when testing it. > > Now, I actually get sound with model=mbp3, but the controls are all > wrong, e.g. line-out controls the built-in speakers, and the speaker > on/off control doesn't do anything to the speakers. Also, I need to turn > up the volumes pretty much to max to get any output at all, which seems > a little strange. I'll try to figure out what the controls really are > and see if I can make a new model that links it all up correctly. Ah, good to hear. Then we have really a better hope now. > Anyway, sorry for the bother and thanks for all the help. > > In other news, I've got a new aoa patch that actually works on the older > models, but so far doesn't fix the quiet sound problem either, I'm still > working with Andreas on that. And I'm also working with somebody else to > get optical output on topaz-based machines. Great. I can merge 2.6.30 materials at any time. So feel free to submit patches. thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
