NAME

       oss_hdaudio - Intel High Definition Audio (AZALIA)

DESCRIPTION

       Open  Sound  System driver for Intels high definition audio known as "Azalia". This driver
       supports Intel 915/925 chipsets with the Realtek ALC880 and CMedia 9880 8 channel codecs.

       The HDA driver supports:

       •  8-96Khz Playback/Recording

       •  8 or 16 or 32 bits

       •  2, 4, 6 or 8 channel audio.

       •  SPDIF digital output and Input

       •  AC3 passthrough

   HDAUDIO MIXER
       The Intel HDA mixer is a new type of mixer that doesn't have the  normal  volume  controls
       found on AC97 or legacy SB devices.  The HDA mixer presents a concept of Jacks and you can
       configure any jack to be either an output or an input jack.

       Some motherboards may not correctly initialize the jacks  according  to  their  color  and
       functionality but in general here's the configuration that should generally be followed:

              o Orange = Center/LFE
                     o Blue = Line-in

              o Black = Rear
                     o Green = Front

              o Grey = Side
                     o Pink = Mic

       Some  Azalia  codecs support front panel connectors and so if you see fp-green and fp-pink
       connectors, then these are for front panel speaker and mic/line-in Jacks.

              There is a function selector for most  of  the  analog  audio  jacks  (for  example
              connector.pink.mode).  This  selector  is used to control if the jack is used as an
              input (microphone or line in) or output (front, rear, side, speaker, etc).

KNOWN PROBLEMS

       In general Azalia based systems (laptops/motherboards) would require a  custom  driver  to
       work  properly.  Due to enormous number of different systems it is not possible to develop
       such custom drivers for all systems. A generic driver is used for systems that don't  have
       dedicated drivers.

       Unfortunately  the mixer and control panel interface (see ossmix(1)) for "generic" systems
       is very cryptic and difficult to understand. To solve  problems  with  volumes  or  signal
       routing you need to start ossxmix(1) and change the controls one at time until you get the
       desired effect.

OPTIONS

       o hdaudio_jacksense
              enables jack sensing mode when the hdaudio driver is loaded. In this mode  all  I/O
              pin's  that  are not in use will be disabled as well as the mixer controls that are
              related with them. In this way the mixer/control panel will become more  intuitive.
              However  OSS will need to be restarted with soundoff; soundon every time new inputs
              or outputs are attached to the audio jacks. Default : 0.

              NOTE!  hdaudio_jacksense=1  works  only  in  some  systems.    Many   laptops   and
              motherboards don't support jack sensing.

       o hdaudio_noskip
              Disable  skipping  unconnected  jack.  All  mixer  controls will be shown, even for
              disabled I/O pins.  Can get values 0-7. 1-7 is a bitmask, where every bit  masks  a
              different  check.  Bit  3  (= value 4) overrides jacksense check too.  Default: 0 -
              unconnected jacks are skipped.

FILES

       /etc/oss4/conf/oss_hdaudio.conf Device configuration file

AUTHOR

       4Front Technologies

                                         03 December 2013                          oss_hdaudio(7)