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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/hd-audio/notes.rst b/Documentation/sound/hd-audio/notes.rst index 0f3109d9abc8..f81e94d8f145 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/hd-audio/notes.rst +++ b/Documentation/sound/hd-audio/notes.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ problem is broken BIOS, and the rest is the driver implementation. 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 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ If you are interested in the deep debugging of HD-audio, read the HD-audio specification at first. The specification is found on Intel's web page, for example: -* http://www.intel.com/standards/hdaudio/ +* https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/standards/high-definition-audio-specification.html HD-Audio Controller @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ the wake-up timing. It wakes up a few samples before actually 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 @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ see a regression wrt the sound quality (stuttering, etc) or a lock-up 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 @@ -215,6 +215,17 @@ There are a few special model option values: * when ``generic`` is passed, the codec-specific parser is skipped and only the generic parser is used. +A new style for the model option that was introduced since 5.15 kernel +is to pass the PCI or codec SSID in the form of ``model=XXXX:YYYY`` +where XXXX and YYYY are the sub-vendor and sub-device IDs in hex +numbers, respectively. This is a kind of aliasing to another device; +when this form is given, the driver will refer to that SSID as a +reference to the quirk table. It'd be useful especially when the +target quirk isn't listed in the model table. For example, passing +model=103c:8862 will apply the quirk for HP ProBook 445 G8 (which +isn't found in the model table as of writing) as long as the device is +handled equivalently by the same driver. + Speaker and Headphone Output ---------------------------- @@ -310,12 +321,6 @@ Kernel Configuration -------------------- In general, I recommend you to enable the sound debug option, ``CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y``, no matter whether you are debugging or not. -This enables snd_printd() macro and others, and you'll get additional -kernel messages at probing. - -In addition, you can enable ``CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_VERBOSE=y``. But this -will give you far more messages. Thus turn this on only when you are -sure to want it. Don't forget to turn on the appropriate ``CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_*`` options. Note that each of them corresponds to the codec chip, not @@ -364,7 +369,7 @@ HD-Audio Reconfiguration ------------------------ 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 @@ -422,7 +427,7 @@ re-configure based on that state, run like below: :: # 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 @@ -483,17 +488,17 @@ indep_hp (bool) 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 power_save_node (bool) advanced power management for each widget, controlling the power - sate (D0/D3) of each widget node depending on the actual pin and + state (D0/D3) of each widget node depending on the actual pin and 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) @@ -592,7 +597,7 @@ present. 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: :: @@ -640,14 +645,14 @@ via power-saving behavior. Enabling all tracepoints can be done like :: - # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/hda/enable + # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/hda/enable then after some commands, you can traces from -/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace file. For example, when you want to +/sys/kernel/tracing/trace file. For example, when you want to trace what codec command is sent, enable the tracepoint like: :: - # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace + # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION @@ -728,7 +733,7 @@ version can be found on git repository: The script can be fetched directly from the following URL, too: -* http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh +* https://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh Run this script as root, and it will gather the important information such as the module lists, module parameters, proc file contents @@ -818,7 +823,7 @@ proc-compatible output. The hda-analyzer: -* http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa.git;a=tree;f=hda-analyzer +* https://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa.git;a=tree;f=hda-analyzer is a part of alsa.git repository in alsa-project.org: |