[pulseaudio-discuss] Sound input problem on chtrt5645 device

Thu Jul 5 18:22:56 UTC 2018

Hi Hans,

I'm using the latest of Ubuntu 16.04,

4.15.0-23-generic

Regards.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:47 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 07/05/2018 04:02 PM, Gustavo Duarte wrote:
> > HI Hans,
> >
> > I tried the normal profile without kernel parameters and the mic still
> > doesn't work.
>
> That is disappointing. I'm afraid I'm all out of idea to try next
> then.
>
> One thing which might still be a problem is using an old kernel,
> what is the version of the kernel you are using?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Hans
>
>
> >
> > Please see the video: https://we.tl/p7b3ne79xB
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Gustavo.
> > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:01 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 04-07-18 17:31, Gustavo Duarte wrote:
> >>> Hi Hans,
> >>>
> >>> I tried again, changing HiFI.conf and chtrt5645.conf  from ucm
> >>> alsa-lib and from Asus T100HA, and at this time, the profile was
> >>> loaded right, because "Internal Analog Microphone" was showed at first
> >>> and "Internal Microphone" at second time.
> >>>
> >>> When I used Asus T100HA profile, i tried with all the kernel command
> >>> line parameter combination, 0x0100 to 0x0400 and 0x1000 to 0x4000.
> >>>
> >>> However, the internal microphone still doesn't work. Gnome audio
> >>> settings, doesn't detect input signal and when a tried record from
> >>> command line no sound is detected (arecord -vv -fdat
> >>> stackoverflow.wav).
> >>>
> >>> Anything else  to try ?
> >>
> >> Have you also tried with the normal profile and and no kernel
> commandline
> >> option?
> >>
> >> IOW, please try with:
> >> -The normal (not the Asus T100HA) chtrt5645.conf and HiFi.conf, so
> >>    the input will be named "Internal Analog Microphone"; *AND*
> >> -No kernel commandline option, check cat /proc/cmdline does not contain
> >>    chtrt5645 in there
> >>
> >> Since you were not using the UCM profile initially it might very well
> >> be that your laptop has a normal analog mic and things where not
> >> working before because the profile was not loaded.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Hans
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> Gustavo.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 11:18 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 29-06-18 18:25, Gustavo Duarte wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Hans,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I assume that when you say there is no input sound, you mean that
> the
> >>>>>> microphone build into the laptop is not working ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That's right.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I tried your suggestions, substitute HiFi.conf file and add these
> >>>>> kernel command line parameters. And the mic, still desn't works.
> >>>>> I tried also dmic on 1st and 2nd input.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There is something that catches my attention.
> >>>>> Always after did a change, I go to Gnome sound settings, input tab,
> >>>>> and the only device showed is chtrt5645 Analog Stereo.
> >>>>> I expected see a digital device... i don't know.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you see "chtrt5645 Analog Stereo" on the input tab, then the
> >>>> UCM profile is not loading correctly. You need to fix that first,
> >>>> if you have an old alsa-lib which did not include a
> >>>> /usr/share/alsa/ucm/chtrt5645 yet, then start with copying
> >>>> both HiFi.conf and chtrt5645.conf from:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=tree;f=src/conf/ucm/chtrt5645
> >>>>
> >>>> To a directory named:
> >>>>
> >>>> /usr/share/alsa/ucm/chtrt5645
> >>>>
> >>>> Note you need the plain txt (raw) versions of both files.
> >>>> Then close the gnome sound-settings, do "killall pulseaudio"
> >>>> and re-open gnome-sound-settings.
> >>>>
> >>>> The input should be named "Internal Analog Microphone" now,
> >>>> once you've managed to get the input named that way (so the UCM
> >>>> profile is loaded correctly) try if the buildin mic works now.
> >>>>
> >>>> If things still don't work, then replace the HiFi.conf with
> >>>> the file from the Asus T100HA profile I linked to before *and*
> >>>> put snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x0100 on the kernel commandline.
> >>>>
> >>>> Note to test the digital-mic you need both the Asus T100HA
> >>>> HiFi.conf *and* the kernel commandline option.
> >>>>
> >>>> To check the kernel commandline option is present after
> >>>> rebooting do: "cat /proc/cmdline", if you are using the
> >>>> Asus T100HA HiFi.conf, the input should now be named
> >>>> "Internal Microphone" (note no more "Analog" in there).
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Hans
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:00 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 28-06-18 12:59, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 10:10 -0300, Gustavo Duarte wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 12:56 -0300, Gustavo Duarte wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> * Hi all,
> >>>>>>>> *> >* The input sound isn't working. No sound is detected.
> >>>>>>>> *> >* Environment:
> >>>>>>>> *> >* Laptop brand: JP Couto model EF20EA
> >>>>>>>> *> >* Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> >>>>>>>> *>* Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
> >>>>>>>> *>* Release: 16.04
> >>>>>>>> *>* Codename: xenial
> >>>>>>>> *> >* Linux Kernel: 4.15.0-23-generic
> >>>>>>>> *> >* Right after install Ubuntu 16.04 on the laptop, the sound
> output and input
> >>>>>>>> *>* isn't worked.
> >>>>>>>> *> >* So i followed this procedure:
> >>>>>>>> *>*
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2374383&p=13698722#post13698722
> >>>>>>>> <
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2374383&p=13698722#post13698722>
> >>>>>>>> *>* and then, output sound starting to work, but input not.
> >>>>>>>> *> >* An strange thing is that output of amixer -cO is empty.
> >>>>>>>> *
> >>>>>>>> On your machine card 0 is HDMI, which is why amixer -c0 is empty.
> >>>>>>>> amixer -c1 will show the chtrt5645 mixer settings.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> There have been input related fixes to chtrt5645's UCM config
> recently.
> >>>>>>>> This is the latest
> >>>>>>>> version:
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/conf/ucm/chtrt5645/HiFi.conf;hb=HEAD
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Try copying that to /usr/share/alsa/ucm/chtrt5645/HiFi.conf
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> Tanu
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I tried this fix, after substitute HiFI.conf file and reboot the
> laptop,
> >>>>>>>> sound configuration options changed, output sound still working,
> but input
> >>>>>>>> NOT.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Something else to do ?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Apparently your laptop requires some special configuration for the
> mic
> >>>>>>> to work. There are a couple of different rt5645 UCM configurations
> >>>>>>> already in alsa-lib:
> >>>>>>>
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=tree;f=src/conf/ucm;hb=HEAD
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> You can try playing with "alsamixer -c1" to find out what settings
> need
> >>>>>>> to be changed. If you manage to find a working settings, then the
> UCM
> >>>>>>> configuration can be fixed.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'll add Hans de Goede to Cc in case he has any hints or is
> otherwise
> >>>>>>> interested (he has fixed input for some other laptops that use
> rt5645).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I assume that when you say there is no input sound, you mean that
> the
> >>>>>> microphone build into the laptop is not working ?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It could be that your laptop is using a digital mic rather then an
> analog one.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> To try for a digital mic on the 1st dmic input, copy:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/conf/ucm/ASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.-T100HAN-1.0-T100HAN/HiFi.conf
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> To /usr/share/alsa/ucm/chtrt5645/HiFi.conf
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> *AND* put snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x0100 on the kernel commandline.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If that does not work you can also try:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x0200
> >>>>>> snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x0300
> >>>>>> snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x0400
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> There also is a second digital mic input, but there is no matching
> UCM file
> >>>>>> for that, so you would need to edit the ucm HiFi.conf file
> yourself, or
> >>>>>> play with alsamixer -c 1. To try and activate a dmic on the 2nd
> input try:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x1000
> >>>>>> snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x2000
> >>>>>> snd_soc_rt5645.quirk=0x3000
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hans
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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