No sound from speaker, using Realtek ALC269 and snd_hda

[Big Yuuta]

Hi Alexander,

I got the sound out of that speaker!! :)

I actually started to read your code, and I'm still trying to understand
the stuff in it (I never wrote a device driver)

Anyway, so I did a little hack'ish modification (just to test) in function

hdaa_audio_ctl_amp_set_internal(struct hdaa_devinfo *devinfo, nid_t nid,
					int index, int lmute, int rmute,
					int left, int right, int dir)
{
	uint16_t v = 0;

    // Do not mute, even if asked for. Test to be removed of course
    lmute = 0;
    rmute = 0;


I know, this is absolutely NOT the way to do it, but I wanted to see
if the speaker wasn't muted (or the mixer that controls it)
and it -actually- WAS muted!

Now, I guess I'll have to read the whole code, try to understand its
internals, and I hope to be able to write a patch to add to hdaa_patches.c

I'm just a beginner, but I'll try anyway :)


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Big Yuuta <init.py at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 29.10.2012 18:35, Big Yuuta wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 29.10.2012 17:44, Big Yuuta wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also check that pin sensing is working. Try to plug in/out headphones.
>>>>>> With
>>>>>> verbose messages enabled, you should see messages about that on console
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> in logs.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Pin sensing works fine. I tested it and whenever I plug the headphone
>>>>> in,
>>>>> I can hear the sound from the headphone, and I have this output
>>>>> on the console:
>>>>>
>>>>> hdaa0: Pin sense: nid=26 sence=0x80000000 (connected)
>>>>> pcm0: Redirect output to: headphones
>>>>> hdaa0: Pin sense: nid=26 sence=0x00000000 (disconnected)
>>>>> pcm0: Redirect output to: main
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the redirection works, but nid20 is not well set? Is "main" here
>>>>> the 1st nid of the association? i.e. nid20 which has seq=0?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not necessary the seq=0, as it can be multichannel output, but in this
>>>> case
>>>> -- yes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I hope I'm not bothering you with my questions, and again thanks
>>>>> a lot for all your work, patience, and help!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately I am almost run out of ideas. Neither Linux nor audio/oss
>>>> seems have specific code for your system. That makes me think that
>>>> problem
>>>> is in some different basic assumptions in the drivers. But that doesn't
>>>> give
>>>> any hint to find it out.
>>>>
>>>> You may try to play with setting different levels of ivref/ovref voltages
>>>> via hint.hdaa.0.config tunable. I haven't even seen it affecting power
>>>> amplifier, but who knows...
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you, Alexander! :)
>>>
>>> In fact, this netbook works very fine with audio/oss from ports.
>>> My only problem with audio/oss is that whenever I skip (seek) in a
>>> video or an audio file, freebsd crashes and reboots.
>>>
>>> I know it's a problem with mplayer + oss, because, mplayer
>>> with snd_hda works (except speaker) and oss + vlc works
>>>
>>> But I like mplayer more than vlc ;)
>>
>>
>> I don't have plans to support audio/oss, but I would be interested to
>> diagnose this issue with snd_hda. Unfortunately, I am not sure what else can
>> I do now without access to the hardware for low-level debugging. If somebody
>> with the same netbook and the same problem appears at MeetBSD California or
>> otherwise in San Jose in following days, I would be glad to look. Other
>> problematic sound hardware is also welcome.
>
> Perfect! Thank you so much! And if I ever make it work, I'll tell you.
>
> Thanks again :)