At Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:25:55 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > > I admit that the best thing would be to make the driver support all > three mics, but at this point, the alsa driver can only support two, one > called "mic" and one called "front mic". I believe the best choice is to > select the internal mic as "front mic" and the mic jack on the laptop as > "mic", thus leaving the docking station mic jack non-functional. > > The behavior without this patch is to select the mic jack on the laptop > as "mic" and the mic on the docking station as "front mic", thus leaving > the internal mic non-functional in all cases, and that regardless of you > have a docking station or not. This is no 100% fix or regression fix, so not suitable for stable kernel tree, I suppose. I'll post a bit more intrusive patch for fixing this. thanks, Takashi > > 2010-08-23 21:07, Jerone Young skrev: > > For laptops you would want to take preference of the docking jack over > > the interal mic if you are in a docking station. > > > > So if you do plug into a docking station and you have a microphone in > > the docking station, a user would want to use that over the internal > > microphone. You wouldn't want the laptop internal mic preferred over the > > docking station microphone. > > > > Thanks, > > Jerone > > > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 21:03 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > >> The BIOS of Dell Precision M6500 lists both 0x0e and 0x11 as > >> front mics, and the driver only supports one front mic. This > >> commit adds a quirk for preferring node 0x11 (internal mic) to > >> node 0x0e (possibly docking station mic). > >> > >> Alsa-info reference: > >> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/54232083/alsa-info.txt.xyFVpIysHt > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Alsa-devel mailing list > >> Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > > > > > > > -- > David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. > http://launchpad.net/~diwic > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
