maestro3 hardware volume control

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:28:59AM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
 > Weird, on my HP Omnibook XE3, the on-board maestro3 has been working 
 > flawlessly all along without any entry in /boot/device.hints. If I add:
 > hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="0"
 > then the hardware volume controls on the laptop stop functioning. 
 > Setting it to "1" makes it working again.
 > 
Hmm, I didn't know that due to a comment in the driver and
failure on my laptops.

 > Does that mean that GPIO pin 4,5 was selected as the default by some 
 > other means on my system? Could ACPI be doing it?
 > 
 > 
I guess your system use GD pins to control hardware volume.
Stock maestro3 driver uses

hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="0" : select GPIO pin
hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="1" : select GD pin
(This is reverse of my previous posting, sorry, I'm confused.)
If there is no hint then it will use GD pin.

Having a quirk table for sytems would be better solution.
But it's hard to build a complete table for this. Since there is
a system that works with current driver's behavior it would be
useless to change default to use GD pin. I can live with the hint
mechanism. However the drawback is the hint mechanism works only
at boot time for staticlly linked driver, so it's not apply to
dynamically loaded driver. :-(

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Pyun YongHyeon
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