Bug 590907

Summary: MacBook Pro 13" (5,5) front speaker muted by default
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: François Kooman <fkooman>
Component: alsa-libAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: jkysela, LoveThePenguin81, marius.andreiana, redhat
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Description François Kooman 2010-05-10 23:03:18 UTC
Created attachment 412994 [details]
alsa-info for MacBook Pro 13" 5,5

Description of problem:

On MacBook Pro 13" (5,5) summer 2009 edition the front speaker is muted by default. Modifying this (unmute + setting volume to 0dB fixes it). This report is for the built in speakers.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

alsa-lib-1.0.23-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:

always
  
Actual results:

No sound without modifying mixer (alsamixer -c 0)

Expected results:

Sound by default

Additional info:

See attachments.

Comment 1 François Kooman 2010-05-10 23:04:14 UTC
Created attachment 412995 [details]
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Comment 2 François Kooman 2010-05-10 23:04:37 UTC
Created attachment 412996 [details]
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Comment 3 François Kooman 2010-05-11 13:01:47 UTC
*** Bug 590906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 luca tosatto 2010-06-23 10:54:07 UTC
If I can help a quick fix it to add the following lines to 

/etc/rc.local

amixer -c 0 set 'Surround Speaker' 115 unmute
amixer -c 0 set 'Front Speaker' 115 unmute
amixer -c 0 set 'Surround Speaker Playback Volum' 115 unmute


... This is what i did on my Macbook Pro 5.4  :)

Luca

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:36:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 6 Marius Andreiana 2010-11-17 22:23:00 UTC
The workaround from Luca didn't work for me

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 580703 ***

Comment 7 Christian Kujau 2011-04-27 22:48:58 UTC
> amixer -c 0 set 'Surround Speaker' 115 unmute

...did the trick on my MacBookPro5,5.

> amixer -c 0 set 'Front Speaker' 115 unmute

The "Front Speaker" command unmutes some very strange speaker, it sounds kinda "metallic", with no bass, so I turned it off again. Together with the "Surround Speaker" it sounds a bit better, but overall sound experience is still awful compared to what I have under MacOSX. But at least it's "working" now!

> amixer -c 0 set 'Surround Speaker Playback Volum' 115 unmute

The "Surround Speaker Playback Volum" command did nothing here.


Thanks, Luca!

$ lspci | grep Audio
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)