To those with the 9300:

I downloaded the newest audio driver from dell and unpacked it, and took a look at the ini files [its actually the ini files that matter, not the infs] and it is totally different from ours. Well not really different but more like everything is missing. Your ini files are about 1/5th the size of ours. Anyways, the part that we edit actually isn't there, so if there is a way to do it, it's probably different than our way. If you got time, i guess you could open the ini up and try messing with it yourself. You may be able to get stuff done by changing the entries under [HKR\Settings]

Sorry I can't be of more help :[

Edit: The ini's that matter are the ones that start with D. Since Dell uses the same driver for multiple laptops, there are three ini files but only one applies to your laptop. I have no idea which one applies to the 9300, so you may have to edit all of them at the same time.

Edit2: Oh and it appears that the control panel for stac97 doesn't have nearly as many features as the stac9200. There does appear to be an equalizer though.

I have the Stac97 for my 9200, but no equalizer. That is what I've always wanted. Can you guys do that?

I have enabled many properties in my volume control panel by going to:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Class\{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0005\Settings]
And manually enabling things.

To make playing with these easier, make a shortcut to regedit. (It's in Windows/System32, I think)
When you're at the page, make it a favorite.

Export the string to your documents first as is, in case you fook it all up.

After fiddling with my M1710 for a while, I did notice one thing that used to work, but is not working now. After applying the changes in that .ini file, the internal speakers no longer mute themselves when you plug in an external set of speakers.

I poked around the Sigmatel control panel, and there doesn't seem to be any switch for whether or not the internal speakers will shut off when external speakers are plugged in, but that's how it worked previous to the update.

If anybody has a clue on a fix, please shout - but so far I'm more than happy to put up with that one hiccup to have all the improvements!

see post #62

Are you seeing this in the file? -Because I can't get it to come on a panel anywhere.
I can't even get the Bass Treble sliders to function.

Oh I was talking about the stac97 overall. If you open the .cpl file in resource hacker you can see the dialog boxes that supposedly can be unlocked.

Well, as pertainant to my stac97, I did manage to find this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=69243

well that about does it for any hope of getting my laptop speakers back up and functioning...I'm not really too keen on editing and tweaking .ini's, sort of at a loss. I tried the toshiba driver set from the above post, but as I figured seemingly no control over output routing or the like. Anyone else in the 9300 realm know anything more? curious. I always thought of trying to just jump the connection where the headphone jack used to be, but its a motherf***er to access.

shrug.

From the thread, about the utility:It is. And it's SOFTWARE too; my cpu usage increases with about 3% when turning it on.

So for music it's like turning on some DSP/Effect plugin for Winamp

But thanks for the link

Well, all I want is an equalizer of some sort in my Advanced Volume Control. I have great interest in this thread, but so far nothing has been modded for the stac97 for my needs here, and I have no idea how to do any of this stuff.

Like I stated earlier, I've gone into the registry and enabled everything I could find, so my volume control panel has all sorts of crap on it, but no equalizer of any kind. I still can't move the Bass & Treble sliders in Advanced Volume.

I use WMP 11, and the things that are on the Toshiba software come on in WMP anyway, so then it's really just running two instances of the same audio software. I'll probably uninstall it after I play around with it a little more.

Am I missing something?

I downloaded the Dell Drivers for my XPS M2010 laptop from http://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R122161.EXE

After extracting I copied over the 92xxm2-3.ini file posted above.

I still don't have the stereo mix option though. It isn't available to select as a recording device. Any ideas?

Hi peeps,

I have tried various solutions and ended up with most stuff working, in that I can get the Sigmatel control panel to work with everthing that I require.

The two main things I needed was Stereo Mix and Input Monitor, after messing around with restoring stuff and installing over other drivers (as mentioned in this thread) not everything works but is better than the installed software. I might mention that I purchased the SB software to sort out issues but this did not work and seemed a was a waste of money (it did supply a mixer and equaliser but not the Stereo Mix or Input Monitor though).

Thank you to all that have experimented with the INI installation files,. Unfortunately I'm unable to duplicate exactly what I did - it took hours of messing around with different drivers - and the INI files in this thread. I still get errors in the CPL file but as I said the bit I needed worked- why the Dell drivers and programs don't have this control panel can only be due to new laws regarding copyright issues (e.g. the Stereo Mix not being available).

I'm sorry I can add no further advise but can state that with a bit of know how and help from this forum I'm happy - although to re-install from scratch would be a nightmare,.

The M2010 probably uses one of the other ini files then.

Any idea how to tell which INF file is being used? I did try running filemon from SysInternals but it seemed to just access all the INF files so didn't really tell me anything.

Could I do something like edit the device descriptions by appending a unique letter to find out which gets installed?

Once I know, what exactly do I need to do to the INF file? I diffed the original and modified one posted here and there looked to be a large number of changes. What change do I need to enable Stereo Mix? Thats all I need.

Falerus,

Thanks, your patch has fixed a problem I've been having on my 1710, that is - the speakers don't work in windows. They work fine for the diagnostic program, but boot windows, and only the headphone jack works.

I used your inf file, and I have speakers again. Just to see if it was a one-off thing, I reinstalled the Dell drivers, and my speakers went away again.

I don't think this is a plug issue, since I didn't have headphones plugged in when the issue developed... any idea what's going on?