[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio Merges Speakers and Frontjack

[Philipp Gassmann]

Am Mit 26 Okt 2011 22:43:37 CEST schrieb Reece Dunn:
> On 26 October 2011 21:23, Philipp Gassmann <phiphi at phiphi.ch> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I can no longer mute my builtin Speakers of my notebook separately from
>> the headphone-jacks (I've two of those)
>> In ubuntu 11.04 I could manually switch between Analog Output and Analog
>> Speakers in the Audio-Settings, now there's only Analog Speakers
>> In Alsamixer I have Master, Speaker, PCM, Front and some switches etc. I
>> can adjust them, but when I change the Volume via Indicator or
>> shortcuts, they are reset to 100, Master is leveled.
>> It would be no problem if connected jacks would be recognized and
>> speakers muted automatically, but that doesn't work either.
>> Switching between Analog Speakers and Analog Output was also some kind
>> of workaround, but It worked for me.
>> I asked on IRC if anyone could help me adjusting the configuration.
>> *mkbosmans told me to write a mail to the list.
>> *Here's some extracts:
>>
>> *
>> phiphi:* hello can anyone assist me in configuring my (pulse)audio on
>> ubuntu, so that I can mute speakers?22:06:09
>>
>> *phiphi:* In ubuntu 11.04 I could manually switch between Analog Audio
>> Output and Analog Speakers in the Audio-Settings22:07:06
>>
>> *mkbosmans:* phiphi, and now there's no choice in ports anymore?22:08:34
>>
>> *phiphi:* I still can mute Speaker via alsamixer, but the
>> volume-indicator or whatever is behind it (guess pulseaudio) has bound
>> the channel Speaker and Master together. When I change volume via
>> indicator it resets the Speaker channel.22:08:59
>>
>> *phiphi:* No, now there's only Analog Speakers22:09:29
>>
>>
>> *mkbosmans:* the problem lies in line 316: Removing path 'analog-output'
>> as it is a subset of 'analog-output-speaker'22:26:23
>>
>> *mkbosmans:* I had problems with subset path removal too22:27:06
>>
>> *mkbosmans:* Can you send a problem description to the mailing list,
>> with a link to this output? Please explain clearly (e.g. in case of
>> functionality you are missing of the alsa-mixer control elements) why in
>> your case the removal of the analog-output path is not desired22:28:17
>>
>> *mkbosmans:* phiphi, for reference see my mail to the list with the
>> subject [PATCH] alsa-mixer: Take channel mask of volume element into
>> account when finding a subset path
>>
>>
>>
>> killall pulseaudio ; LANG=C pulseaudio -vvvv > /tmp/pulseaudio_vvvv 2>&1
>> Output: http://pastebin.com/kvcYSth8 <http://pastebin.com/kvcYSth8>
>>
>> Output and result differ between different tries. Sometimes I have no
>> longer an "Internal Analog Device" and the problem-line does not appear.
>> like in the following
>> http://pastebin.com/vXwN3heW
>>
>> My sound-hardware is: HDA Intel, IDT 92HD75B3X5
>>
>> I'm glad If I can help improve pulseaudio (to work on my hardware ;-)
>
> For reference, there are also several bugs on Ubuntu's Launchpad
> relating to this:
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/871633
> (HP Pavilion dv6, IDT 92HD75B3)
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/870360
> (HP Pavilion dv7, IDT 92HD75B3X5)
>
> For my system (the dv7), I get the same behaviour as described above.
>
> According to the bios info, the jacks on my system get reported as:
>
> Node 0x0b: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
> Node 0x0f: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Front
> Node 0x1e: [Jack] SPDIF Out at Ext Front
>
> With alsamixer:
>    Speaker -- effects the internal built-in speaker volume
>    Front -- effects the volume of the headphone jacks
>    Master -- effects both Speaker and Front volume
>
> Using hda-jack-sense-test:
>
> Pin 0x0b (Black Mic): present = left jack/connector on the front (microphone)
> Pin 0x0f (Green Line Out): present = middle *and* right jack/connector
> on the front (headphones)
>
> - Reece
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I have a dv8.
Audio devices/Connectors are: 1 Stereo Speaker + 1 Bass Boost Speaker 
at the bottom + 2x jack headphones + 1x Mic/Line In
There are some touch-controls for audio. Mute, Volume slider/+-, and a 
Treble/Bass switch and a corresponding slider, that has no effect.
But that's not part of pulseaudio I guess, or is there a possibility to 
control the bass boost speaker?


What's hda-jack-sense-test? OK, found it as .deb in the bugreport.
I get the same results! But that means, that it's possible to automute 
it. there's hope ;)

But I get only these two jacks, not as many as you have.
root at phiphi-HP-Pavilion-dv8-Notebook-PC:~# hda-jack-sense-test
Sigmatel specific "Power-Map: 0x00" verb ignored for the moment
Sigmatel specific "Analog Loopback: 0x00" verb ignored for the moment
Pin 0x0b (Black Mic): present = Yes
Pin 0x0f (Green Line Out): present = No

What's the status? Did you find a workaround?
-phiphi