At Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:36:06 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > At Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:54:34 -0700, > > Russ Dill wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > At Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:23:15 -0700, > >> > Russ Dill wrote: > >> >> > >> >> GIven the recent changes in gnome land (pulseaudio), I'd like to be > >> >> able to get alsa support for my hardware fixed up. My biggest > >> >> annoyance right now is that when I plug headphones in, it doesn't mute > >> >> the speakers. Another issue I have is that I'd like to have support > >> >> for audio out on HDMI (which is supported by Vista). On with the show. > >> > > >> > Try the later version of alsa-driver or kernel, and pass model=auto. > >> > As default model=acer is chosen for ALC883 with Acer vendor SSID, > >> > and it's known that it doesn't match with the recent Acer laptops > >> > at all. The BIOS auto-parsing mode would work better recently. > >> > >> I still get dmesg errors (audio does play though): > >> > >> [229513.339812] hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read > >> method instead. > >> [229513.436583] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card > >> #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj. > > > > These are no errors. You can ignore for now. > > ok, but the "azx_get_response timeout" ones seem to be as audio > glitches when the occur. Does it happen with model=auto? The driver doesn't work without that option, as I mentioned. > > Which alsa-driver are you using now? At best, try the latest > > alsa-driver snapshot from > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz > > or the sound git tree at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git > > I'm currently using whatever comes in 2.6.28 with ubuntu. I'll try out > the git tree. Bah, that's way too old to debug... > >> The Center mixer control now controls my left laptop speaker and the > >> LFE mixer control controls the right speaker. The Surround control > >> that used to control the laptop speakers now does nothing. > >> > >> Attempting to MUTE the LFE channel, the audio skipped a bit and I got: > >> > >> [229698.556044] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to > >> polling mode: last cmd=0x10db0001 > >> [229699.561017] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to > >> single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x10db0001 > >> > >> My system just hung (likely due to wireless drivers) and I rebooted > >> and with model=auto again, the mixer controls are different. There is > >> no LFE or Center controls, but there is an added Headphone volume > >> control (which does nothing). Front controls the headphone volume, > >> nothing controls the speaker volume. > >> > >> I've been unable to hear digital output (mplayer -ao alsa:device=iec958). > > > > The device is likely not "iec958" but "hdmi". > > no such device exists with model=auto (or without setting model). Yes, too old version :) > >> My laptop has an internal microphone, two internal speakers, a > >> headphone jack, a mic in jack, a line in jack, and digital audio out > >> via hdmi. > > > > And alsa-info output? Use model=auto from now on. > > The default model (acer) doesn't work obviously for your laptop. > > It was attached to the previous email Ah, overlooked. Thanks. But better the one from the latest driver... Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
