Re: [alsa-devel] [EXT] Re: [PATCH] ASoC: sgtl5000: Revert "ASoC: sgtl5000: Fix of unmute outputs on probe"

[Tim Harvey]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:26 AM Marcel Ziswiler
<marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim
>
> On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 13:49 -0700, Tim Harvey wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:24 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:46:31AM +0000, Alison Wang wrote:
> > >
> > > > We tested this standard solution using gstreamer and standard
> > > > ALSA
> > > > tools like aplay, arecord and all these tools unmute needed
> > > > blocks
> > > > successfully.
> > > > [Alison Wang] I am using aplay. Do you mean I need to add some
> > > > parameters for aplay or others to unmute the outputs?
> > >
> > > Use amixer.
> >
> > Marc / Oleksandr,
> >
> > I can't seem to find the original patch in my mailbox for 631bc8f:
> > ('ASoC: sgtl5000: Fix of unmute outputs on probe')
>
> I forwarded you that one again. OK?
>
> > however I find it
> > breaks sgtl5000 audio output on the Gateworks boards which is still
> > broken on 5.6-rc6.
>
> What exactly do you mean by "breaks"? Isn't it that you just need to
> unmute stuff e.g. using amixer or using a proper updated asound.state
> file with default states for your controls?

the audio device is in /proc/asound/cards but when I send audio to it
I 'hear' nothing out the normal line-out output.

>
> > Was there some follow-up patches that haven't made
> > it into mainline yet regarding this?
>
> I don't think so. It all works perfectly, not?
>
> > The response above indicates maybe there was an additional ALSA
> > control perhaps added as a resolution but I don't see any differences
> > there.
>
> Not that I am aware of, no.
>

The output of 'amixer' shows nothing different than before this patch
where audio out worked (same controls, same settings on them). I'm
testing this with a buildroot rootfs with no asound.conf (or at least
none that I know of... i'm honestly not clear where all they can be).

Tim