Hacking SigmaTel Drivers for E1705/9400, i need knowledgable helpers - Page 12

Veazer : Where have you been? I know you became frustrated with the project but you d'daddy. Some progress has been made that I'd like you to check out. If you would go to post 206 and save as from "here" you will have all the features you set forth. If my post at #219 is missing anything or is not suscinct please if you can, correct me. Thanks and where's is your broadcast? Sincerely, Geep

Pieter and Geep;

No, initially all worked well. Then one day, I booted up, and the speakers no longer worked. I tested with the diagnostics, and the speakers were functional, as was the headphone jack.

The hacked drivers allow the o/b speakers to work, but they don't turn off when I plug in headphones. I suspect the cheezy headphone connector on the mobo is the culprit.

I did uninstall the drivers, both through add/remove programs, and the uninstall button in the driver tab. Still no joy. So it's back to the hacked drivers, no o/b subwoofer, and external speakers for now

When you plug the heaphones in it pushes apart the contacts that allow the signal to travel to the speakers so for you this might be broken or just stuck.
You are plugging it in far enough ?

The standard XP sound properties should allow you to enable the Subwoofer
There might be all sorts of bit's of driver causing these problems.
I've got a clean install of XP and all is good for me.

i uninstalled everything and tried again... i dunno if my m90 has a modded version of the 9200 but im sure the speakers are allways on... i cannot turn off the digital conections... i get only one option which is, the speaker is connected to the digital output.

Pieter, Squidbait may have a faulty headphone jack but it is not what you think. This is clearly not a typical breaker jack otherwise the different driver couldn't turn the speakers off nor would some driver hacks turn the speakers on with headphones are plugged in. This is electronic switching triggered by a single spst switch in the jack or by impedance sensing. Pieter, your suggestion of a fresh OS is an excellent idea but a huge step for some to take. If you have dozens of programs I would install the fresh OS on another drive to find out if original DELL drivers work properly. A USB 2.0 drive is bootable if the bios is set for it. Another way is back up the current installation with a hard drive imager like Ghost and use the recovery partition to make the machine as new. If it turns out that the speakers work fine then you can begin to install all your programs and get you docs from that Back-up image.
....A good live LINUX distro known to support Sigmatel audio would be a hell of a shortcut to test your speakers and lineout. (Mepis, Knoppix, Ubuntu are all free) Good Luck Geep

I tried formating, with dell driver i get no options but with earphones pluged in, the sound comes out only on the headphones... tried your drivers and... same prob as allways, pluged earphones and sound comes from both ways... check the sigmatel control panel and it says that:

Front, rear, back and spdif are connected... so for me to get this working i should get those 4 speakers disconected, the thing is when you click message is "a speaker is connected to this output" or summin like that...

I tried formating, with dell driver i get no options but with earphones pluged in, the sound comes out only on the headphones... tried your drivers and... same prob as allways, pluged earphones and sound comes from both ways... check the sigmatel control panel and it says that:

Front, rear, back and spdif are connected... so for me to get this working i should get those 4 speakers disconected, the thing is when you click message is "a speaker is connected to this output" or summin like that...

Sergiop,

If you open the Sigmatel volume control, and then click on the Advanced button, you'll get a window with two (disabled) sliders for tone control, plus two checkboxes to mute the PC speakers and the SPDIF output. If you check the PC Spk Mute, then just the headphone jack will be live - which is what I do, but I'm using external speakers rather than a headphone.

Pieter and Geep,

While a clean install may solve the problem, I doubt it. And there's no way I'm going to do that now - I'm in the middle of writing up my PhD!

im sorry but i dont get that... im attaching 2 pics where you can see...

i ahve translated the important stuff

Do you have a full version of XP ?
Do you have about 5GB spare space on the HD ?
Do you know how to partition your HD ?

Partition 5GB
Install another version of XP here.
Now you can test to see what happens on a clean system.
You can also still work on your Phd

I have multiple Partitions for testing Forceware drivers,
This way I always have my good partition should things go belly up (and they have)

is that message ment for me?

[quote=sergiop]im sorry but i dont get that... im attaching 2 pics where you can see...

i ahve translated the important stuff

Sergio,

You're in the wrong place. Go to the taskbar and double-click on the volume control icon. You should see the first window.

When you click on the "Advanced" button, you should see the second window with the PC Spk Mute checkbox.

Pieter,

Yes to all, except for the time it'd take, and the ragged edge it'd put on my nerves. My life is on this machine, I'm not going to do anything to endanger it. Maybe after I'm done, I'll give it a try, but for right now, unless it's shooting sparks and smoke in my face, I'll live with the inconvenience.

STEREO MIX FOR DELL 1505 - SOLVED!!!
here's a modified version of the 92XXM2-5.ini file, based on the work done by others in this forum (thanks so much guys). The 1505 uses the 92XXM2-5.ini instead of the 92XXM2-3.ini file, which the 1705 uses. follow the instructions below based on an earlier post, and it should work (I reccomend backing up the original file first, just for good practice). I didnt experiment with quality issues, latency times or anything like that....but.....it looks like it does what I want to do.


Instructions:
0. Uninstall your sigmatel drivers through add/remove programs if you want to be safe. Don't if you want to be daring.
1. Download the newest sigmatel drivers from Dell
2. Run the file. It will unpack the files to the location you specify, then it will proceed to install the driver. Cancel the driver install.
3. Go over to the folder where it was all unpacked and browse to the "WDM" folder. For example I have "C:\DELL\drivers\R122161\WDM"
4. Copy 92XXM2-5.ini into that folder, overwriting the existing one.
5. Go back up one folder to "R122161". For example "C:\DELL\drivers\R122161"
6. Run setup.exe. Certain antivirus progs may slow the install down alot, so it may be a good idea to temporarily stop protection (KIS 6.0 makes the install about 5 times longer for me)
7. Go mess around with the SigmaTel control panel applet

sorry....first post.....
here's the ini file

[quote=Squidbait]

thanks, that would solve the problem...

but everytime i have to plug the earphones i have to set it to mute, and then when i disconnect them set it to on again??? IS this mod really worth doing the above everytime i plug earphones?

I suppose it depends. I've given up on the onboard speakers for the time being. I've got a cheap 3-piece speaker set that sounds as good as the onboards, and is pretty easy to move around, if I'm going to any one place for any length of time. Otherwise I just use headphones.

i guess then it makes sense... im looking forward to a express card audigy... i would like to conect at least a 5.1 systme to the laptop... i dont know why dell on a 3500$ computer wont even think of a 5.1 plug... i have heard of a s-video to spdif output... too complicated to get that cable overseas...

I agree! It's utter foolishness (IMHO) to bill the M1710 as a premium gaming laptop, and then include a rinky-dink sound chip. At the very least there should have been 5.1 output. If I had realized that the SB Audigy option was not hardware but a cheezy software suite, I might have rethought my purchase a little more. As for the Audigy, I don't think it would be a bad idea. I've got the Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Roadie, which is great for movies and music, but sucks rocks for gaming. Apparently polling the USB bus takes too much processor time, so you get stuttering and noise. I also have a USB TV-tuner, but I have to reduce the screen res to at least 1440 x 900, otherwise the sound and picture stutters. Didn't you get the S-Video - SPDIF adapter with yours? Mine came with it included. I didn't realize it was an option.

in Spain/Europe they dont even know what an S-Video Output is... they sent me the M90 with a core duo sticker eventhough i repeated several times i wanted the core 2 duo sticker... i had to call afterwards and wait for a month to get my core 2 duo sticker... which is dumb, but that is how dell europe works... i wanted to get with the laptop the cable and the bluetooth remote, but they said shipping only was 200$... so now i cant buy a 5.1 system cuz i have nowhere to plug it in and i have to use the PSP with the remote administrator to use it as a remote...