If a sound card doesn't have the "front" device defined for it, we have
to use the "hw" device for stereo. Not so long ago, the analog-stereo
mapping had "hw:%f" in its device-strings and everything worked great,
except that it caused trouble with the Intel HDMI LPE driver that uses
the first "hw" device for HDMI, and we were incorrectly detecting it as
an analog device. That problem was fixed in commit ea3ebd09, which
removed "hw:%f" from analog-stereo and added a new stereo fallback
mapping for "hw".
Now the problem is that if a sound card doesn't have the "front" device
defined for it, and it supports both mono and stereo, only the mono
mapping is used, because the stereo mapping is only a fallback. This
patch makes the mono mapping a fallback too, so the mono mapping is used
only if there's absolutely nothing else that works.
This can cause trouble at least in theory. Maybe someone actually wants
to use mono output on a card that supports both mono and stereo. But
that seems quite unlikely.
Pulseaudio tries to pick the best profile (on startup or
hotplugged), the best profile is the profile with the highest
priority which isn't unavailable.
Due to the facts that iec958 ports available status always (?)
is unknown, and that it is generally more likely that a user use
hdmi than iec958, lets prioritze hdmi over iec958.
This patch shift the analog-* mappings +5 and hdmi-* mappings +5.
Some sound cards don't have any alsa-lib configuration, but they used to
work well enough up to PulseAudio 10. PulseAudio 11 stopped using "hw:0"
for the analog-stereo mapping, and instead defined it as a fallback
mapping without any mixer handling. As a result, switching between
headphones and speakers stopped working without changing the mixer
settings manually at least on Toshiba Chromebook 2. This patch adds the
mixer handling back to the fallback mapping.
I also renamed "unknown-stereo" to "stereo-fallback", because I like
that name more.
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102560
Previously, if front:x didn't work, we would try to use hw:x for analog
stereo output. There's no guarantee that hw:x is an analog output,
however. For example, the Intel HDMI LPE driver uses hw:x for HDMI
output, and PulseAudio incorrectly created analog profiles for that
card, because front:x doesn't work but hw:x does.
This patch changes things so that the analog stereo mapping doesn't any
more use hw:x as a fallback. A separate "unknown stereo" fallback
mapping is added to handle the rare case where hw:x is the only PCM
device that works.
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100488
This makes the GUIs (e g gnome/unity-control-center) look more consistent
with other inputs/outputs that also have ports.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
This works around bug 80850: a mapping can only have one channel map,
and in case of a 6-out 10-in device, the mapping will be adjusted to
have both 10 and 6 channels, which does not work.
Reported-by: Benjamin Tegge <benjaminosm@googlemail.com>
Suggested-by: Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2@gmail.com>
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80850
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
FSF addresses used in PA sources are no longer valid and rpmlint
generates numerous warnings during packaging because of this.
This patch changes all FSF addresses to FSF web page according to
the GPL how-to: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
Done automatically by sed-ing through sources.
With the new multichannel profile, we can remove this one and
handle the four channel input as a generic multichannel fallback.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
In case all other profiles fail, try this fallback mapping as well.
It allows the device to specify the channel count, so it can be used
for devices that only supports being opened in multichannel mode.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
A fallback mapping or profile will only be considered for probing
if all non-fallback profiles fail.
If auto-profiles are used, a profile made up of one non-fallback
mapping and one fallback mapping will be considered a fallback profile.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Allow a mapping to relax the exact channel restriction:
exact-channels = yes | no # If no, and the exact number of channels is not supported,
# allow device to be opened with another channel count
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Remove extra-hdmi.conf, as the performance reasons behind it are invalid
Add 7.1 profiles
Add extra HDMI devices, for a total of 8
Add DTS-encoded profiles (they need dcaenc from git)
Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Surround 2.1 is one of the more common surround profiles these days,
so it's about time we support it.
The "surround21" was added to alsa-lib a few months ago, and there
hasn't yet been an alsa-lib release since, but I doubt it will change.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
If there is a "Line Out" jack present, then add this path. The fallback
analog-output will be a subset of this path and removed.
I only use the "Line Out Jack" or "Line Out Front Jack" for actual jack
detection - without anything connected to the front jack, it makes little
sense to enable the port.
(Another option could perhaps be to use different paths for stereo line out
and surround line outs, but that could be a possible future improvement.)
As far as I can see, having a mono path in a stereo mapping doesn't
make any sense. It also causes breakage: if the Master Mono mixer
element has two volume channels, the analog-output path gets removed
due to being a subset of analog-output-mono, and that in turn causes
the Master element getting muted. Users generally don't like that.
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54673
Upstreamed from Debian: "Although in principle Ac '97 hardware has a
separate mono LFE pin nothing seems to use it. To make matters worse
it does confuse PulseAudio's port selection slightly which causes
audio in virtualbox not to work out of the box."
Credit: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org>
Credit: Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1016969
BugLink: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673847
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Some ASUS netbooks, such as the 1015 CX, have only one 3.5 mm jack,
but it can be used either as a headphone or as a mic (but not both
simultaneously).
This patch adds support for the "Headphone Mic" path that is used
on these devices, so that we can use the jack as an external mic, and
doing so without muting the speaker.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018262
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Changes in v2:
- Call the mapping a generic 4-channel input mapping
instead of a 4-channel mic array mapping. The mapping
will be used also by sound cards that have two stereo
input jacks, so in those cases talking about mic arrays
is wrong.
- Added a comment about using the "hw" device name.
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45813
For Nvidia and Intel, support probing of up to four HDMI devices.
Also add port information to all HDMI profiles.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Hi. Could you please apply the attached trivial patch so that I could drop
the corresponding instructions from dcaenc's README file in the future? It
adds a profile for on-the-fly DTS encoding, similar to the existing AC3
profile.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
>From 22310a1c28385acc7ce883e020b9eb2e5b0813b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:19:48 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] alsa: add DTS profile
This requires dcaenc from http://aepatrakov.narod.ru/dcaenc/
The recent change to turn off the IEC958 element for analog paths
exposed a bug in AC3 profiles. These were inheriting the analog output
path instead of explicitly selecting the iec958 path.
Thanks to David Henningsson for pointing this out.
Completely rework mixer logic. This now allows controlling a full set of
elements from a single sink's volume slider/mute button.
This also introduces sink and source "ports" that can be used to choose
different input or output ports with the UI. (i.e. "mic"/"line-in" or
"speaker"/"headphones".
The mixer paths and device maps are now configered in external
configuration files and can be tweaked as necessary.
