At Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:26:35 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 09/07/2012 12:01 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:25:44 +0200, > > David Henningsson wrote: > >> > >> The purpose of this flag is unclear. If the problem is that some machines > >> have broken misc/NO_PRESENCE bits, they should be fixed by pin fixups. > >> > >> In addition, this causes jack detection functionality to be flawed on > >> the M31EI, where there are two jacks without jack detection (which is > >> properly marked as NO_PRESENCE), but due to ignore_misc_bit, these > >> jacks are instead being reported as being present but always unplugged. > >> > >> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939161 > >> Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <[email protected]> > > > > So this will fix this one case but will break some others certainly. > > It's a difficult to judge, but more removal is better, so I'll take > > this. > > Ok. Do you have a sense for how many machines that will regress due to > this patch? If it is common to set all pins to the wrong value, maybe > its the M31EI that is the exception.
Maybe a few Acer and ASUS ones with old codecs. Possibly some desktops with unknown mobos might hit, but that's not what I do care so much for now. > > But I still wonder why PulseAudio cares the headphone jack state even > > though this has only one output at all? > > When seeing the system as a whole, there can be other outputs on other > cards - HDMI, USB etc. If somebody e g plugs a USB headset in it will be > simpler for the user if PulseAudio does not also show the unplugged 3.5 > mm jack. OK, but masking it out unconditionally isn't always nice. There are always corner cases... Takashi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939161 Title: Hardware not showed in Gnome-Control-Center. - [M31EI Series, Realtek ALC861, Green Headphone Out, Rear] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/939161/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
