Bug 2065598

Summary: Update alsa-utils to upstream for RHEL 9.1
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Component: alsa-utilsAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Erik Hamera <ehamera>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 9.1CC: hwkernel-mgr
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Rebase, Triaged
Target Release: ---Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: alsa-utils-1.2.7-1.el9 Doc Type: Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
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Last Closed: 2022-11-15 10:33:09 UTC Type: Component Upgrade
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Description Jaroslav Kysela 2022-03-18 10:00:40 UTC
The latest upstream code contains support for the new hardware and few bugfixes.

Comment 5 Erik Hamera 2022-08-25 02:19:55 UTC
- all binaries are in and executable

- arecord, aplay, alsamixer, speaker-test and alsactl works

- amixer sets both "Master" and "Speaker" up (according to alsamixer running in another terminal), but "Speaker" only down.
- - Manually set "Master" = "Speaker" = 49 in alsamixer
- - $ amixer set Master playback 90%
- - "Master" is on 100, "Speaker" is on 97 in alsamixer
- - amixer set Master playback 20%
- - "Master" is on 100 still, "Speaker" is on 56 in alsamixer
Is this expected behavior? If yes, this BZ is verified:tested.

Comment 6 Jaroslav Kysela 2022-08-25 08:02:56 UTC
The amixer is routed by default to pipewire (or pulseaudio), if the sound server is available. The current audio path (sink/source) is controlled. It seems fine that the native Speaker control changes when the sound is routed to speakers. Note that Master from pipewire is not Master in ALSA. You may verify the used mixer using 'amixer info' command.

Use '-c 0' where zero is the card number or '-D hw:0' (ditto for zero) argument to specify the native ALSA card like for alsamixer.

Comment 7 Erik Hamera 2022-08-25 18:02:50 UTC
Hi Jaroslav,
thank you for the explanation. I consider this BZ being verified now.



Default mixer is routed to the pipewire.

[lhc@flatworm lhc]$ amixer info
Card default 'pipewire'/'PipeWire'
  Mixer name    : 'PipeWire'
  Components    : ''
  Controls      : 4
  Simple ctrls  : 2
[lhc@flatworm lhc]$ amixer -c 0 info
Card sysdefault:0 'sofhdadsp'/'HP-HPSpectrex360Convertible14_ea0xxx--87F6'
  Mixer name    : 'Realtek ALC245'
  Components    : 'HDA:80862812,80860101,00100000 HDA:10ec0245,103c87f6,00100001 cfg-dmics:2'
  Controls      : 49
  Simple ctrls  : 19

[lhc@flatworm lhc]$ rpm -qa alsa-utils
alsa-utils-1.2.7-1.el9.x86_64

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 10:33:09 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (alsa-utils bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2022:8180