At Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:02:13 -0800,
Reimundo Heluani wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 08:55 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:30:58 -0800,
> > Reimundo Heluani wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:27 -0800, Reimundo Heluani wrote:
> > > > Hello list, this came up a year ago and Takashi's answer was "a broken
> > > > bios". I was hoping someone here could point me to documentation to read
> > > > in order to diagnose the problem if indeed is a broken bios. I don't
> > > > want to start randombly reading the driver's code.
> > > >
> > > > Macbook Air 2,1
> > > > 2.6.32-gentoo-r3 SMP x86_64
> > > > Alsa Driver 1.0.21 libs 1.0.22
> > > > nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
> > > > HDA NVidia at 0x93380000 irq 19
> > > > 00:08.0 0403: 10de:0ac0 (rev b1) Subsystem: 10de:cb79
> > > > Codec: Realtek ALC889A
> > > >
> > > > Booting with snd_hda_intel.model=mbp3 get sound on headphones, but not on mainspeakers. The mic never worked.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hello again, I found out that puting the pin in 0x18 as a PIN_OUT I get
> > > sound in the internal speaker. Currently I can change patch_realtek.c to
> > > load the driver using an "mba21" model and I get sound on the main
> > > speaker. One of the (many) problems I have is that I need to use
> > > something like
> > >
> > > {0x18, AC_VERB_SET_PIN_WIDGET_CONTROL, (PIN_OUT | AC_PINCTL_VREF_50) }
> > >
> > > otherwise it goes into HiZ and I get no audio. Looking at that
> > > patch_realtek.c I don't see anything similar. Anyway, I don't have a
> > > clue about ALSA, I just started reading the HDA specification and looked
> > > over patch_realtek.c and came up with the small change below to have a
> > > working main speaker. I'd appreciate if you had any suggestion for the
> > > mic or to point me towards the right documentation.
> >
> > The change looks almost good -- except for one place.
> >
> > >
> > > + /* Macbook Air don't know how this works */
> > > + static void alc885_mba21_setup (struct hda_codec *codec)
> > > + {
> > > + struct alc_spec *spec = codec->spec;
> > > +
> > > + spec->autocfg.speaker_pins[0] = 0x18;
> >
> > Does this device have no dedicated headphone output pin?
> > Usually it's either 0x14 or 0x15.
>
> The headphones are in 0x14 but I couldn't get them to shut the main
> speakers off yet when the hp jack is connected. As soon as I understand
> how the other examples in patch_realtek.c work and get this working I'll
> send you a working patch.
Then check rather whether the pin 0x18 is really the right pin for the
speaker output. This can be checked easily via hda-verb or so.
The speaker can be 0x15 and/or 0x1a, instead.
Takashi
>
> R.
> >
> > Also, please make a patch in a unified diff format.
> >
> > If the patch is ready for merge, please post it (and add me to Cc)
> > with a proper changelog and your sign-off.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
>
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