Re: Bug report - Dell-WD15-Dock not working caused by ucm profile in alsa-lib 1.1.7

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I haven't found the time to test this yet but I will try to do it tomorrow.

René

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 13:02 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:55:31 +0100,
> Ren9 Santing wrote:
> >
> > As a user I do think the ucm profile works as intended with the latest
> > git. Pulseaudio is now able to use the headphone and speaker output of
> > the docking station at the same time and I wasn't able to do that
> > before. Also for me in KDE the volume/mute controls are working as
> > intended. But if the profile gives more issues for other users I can
> > confirm that my normal usecase also works fine without the profile on my
> > setup.
>
> Thanks, that's interesting.  I rethought of dropping the UCM profile
> just because of some complaints about PA behavior.
>
> Is the volume restored properly by PA?  The reporter told that the
> lack of priority values lead to the failure of the volume-restore
> behavior.  This could be relatively easily fixed in UCM profile side,
> we may just add the priority values.
>
> Another complaint was about the lack of the keyboard control.  It was
> supposed to be due to the lack of the hardware flag exposed from PA.
> And, PA UCM parser doesn't seem to take the volume / mute definitions
> even if defined in UCM profile, so far.  This could be fixed in PA
> side as well.
>
> The last complaint was about the missing icon; this might be tricky,
> maybe PA could guess the more appropriate icon from the UCM stream
> name string...
>
> In anyway, I'd be glad if we keep UCM profile as an option, too.
>
> Which version of PA are you using, BTW?
>
>
> Takashi
>
> >
> > René
> >
> > On 30-10-18 16:45, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:48:26 +0100,
> > > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:41:10 +0100,
> > >> Ren9 Santing wrote:
> > >>> I totally missed that commit sorry for the redundant bug report. Yes
> it
> > >>> works with the updated conf file.
> > >> Good to hear, thanks for quick testing!
> > >>
> > >> Jaroslav, what do you think of 1.1.7.1 release addressing regression?
> > >> IIRC, we had an issue with alsa-plugins as well.
> > > Or maybe we should drop this UCM profile.
> > >
> > > Since PA seems addressing the issue by itself via its own specific
> > > profile, we may leave the things to PA alone.
> > >
> > > I hoped that UCM profile support can improve the things in a cleaner
> > > way, but PA-UCM integration isn't fully done (e.g. the volume / mute
> > > controls seem ignored), and UCM overrides the PA profile, it can be
> > > more harm than good as of now.
> > >
> > >
> > > Takashi
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Takashi
> > >>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> René Santing
> > >>>
> > >>> On 30-10-18 10:35, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > >>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:10:07 +0100,
> > >>>> Ren9 Santing wrote:
> > >>>>> Hello Alsa developers,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I would like to file a bug report about the Dell-WD15-Dock. This
> dock
> > >>>>> stopped working for me on archlinux/kde. The device was not picked
> up at
> > >>>>> all by pulse audio after some updates I installed last week.
> > >>>>> By trial and error I found out it was caused by the ucm profile
> that was
> > >>>>> added in alsa-lib 1.1.7.
> > >>>> Could you try the alsa-lib git repo?  The fix is already included.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> thanks,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Takashi
> >
>
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