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rcfa

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EeePC 1000HE RealTek ALC269 status report
« on: May 04, 2009, 11:59:46 PM »
Things are a bit odd. With some fiddling in the VoodooHDA prefPanel I could get microphone and audio to work.

Playback seems to work fine, although the levels seem to be a tad lower than what I think I remember when running WinXP, but I could be wrong. Switching between internal speakers and external/headphones (mini plug) seems to work fine (not sure if that's a hardware switch or a software thing the driver has to catch).
OSX volume control works fine (GUI, of course, not the hardware keys, which require BIOS support).

Mic is a different story. The VoodooHDA prefPane shows two mics, but with totally different controls enabled. None really seem to do anything, because in order to get the mic to work, I had to raise the recording level in the SPEAKER section. As a matter of fact, I have ALL controls to min. in the two mic sections, and I still record.

On both mic and the speaker section I have to have the IMix at min. or else it just adds what sounds like white noise. The Output Gain slider on the Speaker section doesn't seem to be doing anything.

To summarize the controls that have any effect that I can see:

- IMix on Speaker and both Mic panes: add white noise when anywhere but min. setting.

- PCM slider on Speaker pane: affects playback volume, in series with Mac OS X system volume. Thus it's best to have this at max. and do all volume adjustment with the standard system UI.

- Recording Level on the Speaker pane affects the volume of the built-in microphone. This is the only place recording volume can be adjusted, any gain settings in the Mac OS X System GUI is without noticeable effect.

The Mac OS X System Sound pref pane shows two mics. Only the first in the list shows any activity, although maybe the second one is the line input, which I haven't tested yet.

All other controls in the VoodooHDA pane are either disabled (grayed out) or have no effect and thus set to min by me to avoid strange surprises....

A dump of the system is attached, in case that's helpful

So the good: microphone now works, so VoIP is an option. The fact that no more helper app is needed to get sound is also good, the extra space in the menu bar that's freed of Audiee is appreciated.
The bad: mic record gain adjustment isn't hooked up to standard Mac OS X controls, figuring out the settings on the VoodooHDA pane is anything but intuitive and requires fuzzing around. But hey, it works, and that counts.

rcfa

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Re: EeePC 1000HE RealTek ALC269 status report
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2009, 08:32:52 AM »
Two more issues:

a) the System Profiler shows no audio interface being present, even though obviously it is, and it mostly works

b) every now and then, there's a short period of static, almost as if buffers were overrun or something like that, and then it recovers. It's not a big deal when using Skype or such, but it's a nuisance when listening to iTunes because you never know if your audio files are corrupt, or if it's just the driver going funky.

Here an excerpt from the system.log when things go bonkers:
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2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13de,8f8)->(13df,10fa).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13df,8f8)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13e1,8fa)->(13e2,1105).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13e2,8fa)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13e3,905)->(13e4,1110).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13e4,905)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13e5,910)->(13e6,111f).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13e6,910)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13e7,91f)->(13e8,112f).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13e8,91f)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13e9,92f)->(13ea,1140).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13ea,92f)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13eb,940)->(13ec,1151).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13ec,940)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13ed,951)->(13ee,115f).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13ee,951)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13ef,95f)->(13f0,116f).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13f0,95f)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13f1,96f)->(13f2,1178).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13f2,96f)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13f3,978)->(13f4,1185).
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13f4,978)
2009-05-30 03:09:38 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13f5,985)->(13f6,1195).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13f6,985)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13f7,995)->(13f8,11a7).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13f8,995)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13f9,9a7)->(13fa,11b6).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13fa,9a7)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13fb,9b6)->(13fc,11c2).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13fc,9b6)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13fd,9c2)->(13fe,11cc).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (13fe,9c2)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (13ff,9cc)->(1400,11db).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1400,9cc)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1401,9db)->(1402,11e9).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1402,9db)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1403,9e9)->(1404,11f9).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1404,9e9)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1405,9f9)->(1406,1205).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1406,9f9)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1407,a05)->(1408,1210).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1408,a05)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1409,a10)->(140a,121f).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (140a,a10)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (140b,a1f)->(140c,122c).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (140c,a1f)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (140d,a2c)->(140e,123d).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (140e,a2c)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (140f,a3d)->(1410,124d).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1410,a3d)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1411,a4d)->(1412,125c).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1412,a4d)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1413,a5c)->(1414,126a).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1414,a5c)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1415,a6a)->(1416,1279).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1416,a6a)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1417,a79)->(1418,1286).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1418,a79)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1419,a86)->(141a,1290).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (141a,a86)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (141b,a90)->(141c,12a0).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (141c,a90)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (141d,aa0)->(141e,12ad).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (141e,aa0)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (141f,aad)->(1420,12bf).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1420,aad)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1422,abf)->(1423,12cc).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1423,abf)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1424,acc)->(1425,12d8).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1425,acc)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (1427,ad8)->(1428,12e4).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1428,ad8)
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (142a,ae4)->(142b,12ed).
2009-05-30 03:09:39 kernel IOAudioStream[0x4b85a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (142b,ae4)
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