snd_hda on Dell Inspirion 1300 and output jacks

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Dennis Melentyev <dennis.melentyev at gmail.com> (from Thu, 28  
Sep 2006 10:17:12 +0000):

> Afraid, it's more about the right pin connection on different
> PCs/Notebooks with almost the same chipsets.
> So, for me it looks like chipset support is great, but each particular
> motherboard model/kind has some unpredictable interconnections to be
> hardcoded.
>
> I mean things like theese:
>
>        if (sc->pci_subvendor == HP_V3000_SUBVENDOR ||
> 	    sc->pci_subvendor == HP_NX7400_SUBVENDOR ||
> 	    sc->pci_subvendor == HP_NX6310_SUBVENDOR ||
> 	    sc->pci_subvendor == DELL_D820_SUBVENDOR) {
> 	    	nid_t hp, cad = devinfo->codec->cad;
>
> 		if (sc->pci_subvendor == DELL_D820_SUBVENDOR)
> 			hp = 13;
> 		else if (sc->pci_subvendor == HP_V3000_SUBVENDOR)
> 			hp = 17;
> 		else
> 			hp = 6;
>
> 		hdac_command_sendone_internal(sc,
> 		    HDA_CMD_SET_UNSOLICITED_RESPONSE(cad, hp, 0x80), cad);
>
> 	    	hdac_unsolicited_handler(devinfo->codec);
> 	}

Argh... there's no way to get this information automatically (from the  
bios or the soundcard)? Every manufcturer has to provide it's own  
driver and there can't be a generic one? This is an ugly design then.

Bye,
Alexander.

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