This document explains the brief trouble-shooting and debugging
methods for the HD-audio hardware.
-The HD-audio component consists of two parts: the controller chip and
+The HD-audio component consists of two parts: the controller chip and
the codec chips on the HD-audio bus. Linux provides a single driver
for all controllers, snd-hda-intel. Although the driver name contains
a word of a well-known hardware vendor, it's not specific to it but for
processing the data on the buffer. This caused a lot of problems, for
example, with ALSA dmix or JACK. Since 2.6.27 kernel, the driver puts
an artificial delay to the wake up timing. This delay is controlled
-via ``bdl_pos_adj`` option.
+via ``bdl_pos_adj`` option.
When ``bdl_pos_adj`` is a negative value (as default), it's assigned to
an appropriate value depending on the controller chip. For Intel
in the recent kernel, try to pass ``enable_msi=0`` option to disable
MSI. If it works, you can add the known bad device to the blacklist
defined in hda_intel.c. In such a case, please report and give the
-patch back to the upstream developer.
+patch back to the upstream developer.
HD-Audio Codec
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This is an experimental feature to allow you re-configure the HD-audio
codec dynamically without reloading the driver. The following sysfs
-files are available under each codec-hwdep device directory (e.g.
+files are available under each codec-hwdep device directory (e.g.
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D0):
vendor_id
::
# echo 0x14 0x9993013f > /sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/user_pin_configs
- # echo 1 > /sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/reconfig
+ # echo 1 > /sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/reconfig
Hint Strings
mixer control, if available
add_stereo_mix_input (bool)
add the stereo mix (analog-loopback mix) to the input mux if
- available
+ available
add_jack_modes (bool)
add "xxx Jack Mode" enum controls to each I/O jack for allowing to
change the headphone amp and mic bias VREF capabilities
stream states
power_down_unused (bool)
power down the unused widgets, a subset of power_save_node, and
- will be dropped in future
+ will be dropped in future
add_hp_mic (bool)
add the headphone to capture source if possible
hp_mic_detect (bool)
The patch module option is specific to each card instance, and you
need to give one file name for each instance, separated by commas.
-For example, if you have two cards, one for an on-board analog and one
+For example, if you have two cards, one for an on-board analog and one
for an HDMI video board, you may pass patch option like below:
::