High Pitched Squeal

[kaiwai]

To get the mixer set automatically, we need two things:
A) Save the correct settings somewhere in some format.
B) Run a program to restore these settings automatically on boot.

A) Set the wanted configuration using ossxmix. And then:

1) savemixer as root, and see if mixer.save is correctly saved. savemixer -L -v should restore the mixers even without root. (The hg version of savemixer has a -f <filename>, so you can set the file used, and avoid root when saving too).

or:

2) 'ossmix -c' gives a long list of ossmix command to recreate the current mixer settings (The leading '!' is easy to strip). You can redirect this to a script and have it restore the mixer when run.

Now we need to do:
B) Run automatically.
I'm no Solaris expert so I don't know how to do this properly, but I think GDM has Xstartup/Xsession/etc. files? You can add a command to restore settings there. (The comments should tell you when each file is run).

The problem is that I tried to create a smf manifest but it doesn't work - no matter what I did, the savemixer -L /opt/oss/mixer.save was always loaded after the vmixer was loaded. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait for divine intervention to occur.

[cesium]

The problem is that I tried to create a smf manifest but it doesn't work - no matter what I did, the savemixer -L /opt/oss/mixer.save was always loaded after the vmixer was loaded. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait for divine intervention to occur.

I don't think this is supposed to work (unless the Solaris build has some changes not in hg repository). Per the savemixer source, savemixer -L doesn't take an argument. It always looks for:
A. /etc/oss directory, and /etc/oss/mixer.save file
B. OSSLIBDIR as set in /etc/oss.conf, and $OSSLIBDIR/etc/mixer.save file
As you can see /opt/oss isn't being referenced anywhere.

Later, a patch added a '-f' switch (savemixer -L -f /opt/oss/mixer.save would work), but I don't think your version has it.

[seawright]

In oss source:
edit kernel/drv/oss_hdaudio/hdaudio_generic.c
replace

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val = (maxval * 9) / 10;       /* 90% of the maximum */

with

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val = 0;       /* 0% of the maximum */

in two places.
Save changes, recompile and install.

Ensure mixer.save is removed before restarting.

[kaiwai]

In oss source:
edit kernel/drv/oss_hdaudio/hdaudio_generic.c
replace

Code: Select all

val = (maxval * 9) / 10;       /* 90% of the maximum */

with

Code: Select all

val = 0;       /* 0% of the maximum */

in two places.
Save changes, recompile and install.

Ensure mixer.save is removed before restarting.

Perfect - I've compiled it and everything works - as it should I"m tempted to uploading it to a host for others to use.

[seawright]

If you get the opportunity you might like to experiment and check whether it was necessary to set both instances of "val" to zero.

Could the squealing be cured by leaving one or other at its original setting?

It may help to narrow down the underlying problem as this is the first case to have been reported.

[kaiwai]

If you get the opportunity you might like to experiment and check whether it was necessary to set both instances of "val" to zero.

Could the squealing be cured by leaving one or other at its original setting?

It may help to narrow down the underlying problem as this is the first case to have been reported.

Well, what I did was set in the section "Control for input amplifier(s)" to 0 whilst maintaining the output volume to 90%. As for the solution, I don't have an answer really; dev has been unable to fix the problem.

Here is a link for the download; I compiled it using Studio 12 with the latest patches:

http://www.adrive.com/public/467c92d490 ... 9758c.html

[zhiqi]

If you get the opportunity you might like to experiment and check whether it was necessary to set both instances of "val" to zero.

Could the squealing be cured by leaving one or other at its original setting?

It may help to narrow down the underlying problem as this is the first case to have been reported.

Well, what I did was set in the section "Control for input amplifier(s)" to 0 whilst maintaining the output volume to 90%. As for the solution, I don't have an answer really; dev has been unable to fix the problem.

Here is a link for the download; I compiled it using Studio 12 with the latest patches:

http://www.adrive.com/public/467c92d490 ... 9758c.html

I confirm that this package works great on my T61. Fantastic!

[kaiwai]

If you get the opportunity you might like to experiment and check whether it was necessary to set both instances of "val" to zero.

Could the squealing be cured by leaving one or other at its original setting?

It may help to narrow down the underlying problem as this is the first case to have been reported.

Well, what I did was set in the section "Control for input amplifier(s)" to 0 whilst maintaining the output volume to 90%. As for the solution, I don't have an answer really; dev has been unable to fix the problem.

Here is a link for the download; I compiled it using Studio 12 with the latest patches:

http://www.adrive.com/public/467c92d490 ... 9758c.html

I confirm that this package works great on my T61. Fantastic!

As updated versions are released I'll upload them with the modifications.