Re: 2.6.38.4 broke my audio

[Emmanuel Benisty]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:15:28 +0700,
> Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
>>
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>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > At Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:42:59 +0700,
>> > Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > At Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:34:09 -0700,
>> >> > Greg KH wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:25:29AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> >> >> > At Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:01:26 -0700,
>> >> >> > Greg KH wrote:
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:30:37AM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
>> >> >> > > > Hi guys.
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > Just upgraded to .4 from .3 and found my audio was _really_ quiet. All
>> >> >> > > > the mixers looked sane.
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > A quick check of the changelog and a revert of:
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > commit 58541cc27531727f7120683a7cb123ee3ada4bd4
>> >> >> > > > Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
>> >> >> > > > Date: Â Mon Mar 28 12:05:31 2011 +0200
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > Â Â ALSA: hda - Fix pin-config of Gigabyte mobo
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > Â Â commit c6b358748e19ce7e230b0926ac42696bc485a562 upstream.
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > Â Â Use pin-fix instead of the static quirk for Gigabyte mobos 1458:a002.
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > Â Â Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677256
>> >> >> > > > Â Â Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
>> >> >> > > > Â Â Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>> >> >> > > >
>> >> >> > > > made it normal again.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > Takashi, do you have a fix for this, or should I revert this from the
>> >> >> > > .38 stable tree? ÂIt looks like we now have 2 reports of this problem.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > If we need to revert, I'll do it in the upstream first, as it must hit
>> >> >> > to 2.6.39, too.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> True.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > But let me check this breakage first. ÂI'll take a look at it more
>> >> >> > deeply tomorrow.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Ok, that sounds good.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> > Andrew, could you give alsa-info.sh outputs on your machine?
>> >> > Preferably, the outputs both before and after the kernel update would
>> >> > be really helpful.
>> >>
>> >> In case it might help, mine are attached too.
>> >
>> > Thanks. ÂBut the output after update (alsa-info.txt.bad) looks weird.
>> > It contains unexpected pin-update for NID 0x15 (found in
>> > /sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/driver_pin_configs), and thus the mixer
>> > elements created don't match with the results on HD-audio emulator.
>> >
>> > Could you double-check whether you have no modification over 2.6.38.4
>> > driver?
>>
>> Hi Takashi,
>>
>> To double check, I have rebuilt .3 and .4 straight from kernel.org
>> sources with the same config (which I attached, just in case).
>> alsa-info.sh outputs are attached.
>
> Thanks. ÂThe bad output still shows the strange pin-config for NID
> 0x15 while it's not found in the good output.
>
> Could you check the following?
>
> 1. Set model=auto option to snd-hda-intel module and boot 2.6.38.3.
> Â Get alsa-info.sh output.
>
> 2. Apply fix1.diff patch below to 2.6.38.4, and boot, get alsa-info.sh
> Â again.
>
> 3. Reviert fix1.diff, and apply fix2.diff to 2.6.38.4. ÂThe same
> Â procedure.
>
> The point to be checked is the widget 0x15. ÂIn a good case, it should
> have the pin config such as:
> ÂPin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear
>
> In a bad case, the driver modifies this by some reason to
> ÂPin Default 0x99130112: [Fixed] Speaker at Int ATAPI

Hi Takashi,

alsa-info.sh outputs are attached. fix1 works, fix2 is still broken.

Thanks.

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