From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 28 23:49:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D5816A421 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 23:49:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154F043D49 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 23:49:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.14] (imini.samsco.home [192.168.254.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4SNpEGf057554; Sat, 28 May 2005 17:51:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42990343.4050106@samsco.org> Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:48:19 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Panagiotis Astithas References: <4298F0AB.2090404@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <4298F0AB.2090404@ebs.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maestro3 hardware volume control X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 23:49:49 -0000 Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Weird, on my HP Omnibook XE3, the on-board maestro3 has been working > flawlessly all along without any entry in /boot/device.hints. If I add: > hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="0" > then the hardware volume controls on the laptop stop functioning. > Setting it to "1" makes it working again. > > Does that mean that GPIO pin 4,5 was selected as the default by some > other means on my system? Could ACPI be doing it? > > > Cheers, > > Panagiotis The selection is made by the hardware vendor when the system is designed. There is usually no way to control it in software, and no way to detect it in the driver. There is also no way to program the chip to use both sources. Maybe there should be a poll to see how many people have working volume controls without Pyun's patch? Scott