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Alexey Min (minlexx) is currently packaging [ | Alexey Min (minlexx) is currently packaging [https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/merge_requests/448 pulseaudio-modules-droid] to the repository. | ||
Build and install pulseaudio-modules-droid package first, then add this to <code>/etc/pulse/default.pa</code> before the line that loads module-alsa-sink: | Build and install pulseaudio-modules-droid package first, then add this to <code>/etc/pulse/default.pa</code> before the line that loads module-alsa-sink: |
Revision as of 12:22, 29 June 2019
If you're trying out anything and learn something that would have helped, please extend this wiki page. |
Audio on Android
Mixer configuration
This provides a brief overview of how Android audio HALs configure the ALSA mixer.
Android devices can have an assortment mixer configurations such as headphones, speakers, or microphones. For a particular device the audio route configurations are defined in mixer_paths.xml
. For an example see the mixer path XML for Nexus 5 (hammerhead).
Android audio HALs make use of tinyalsa and audio_route. Tinyalsa is a small standalone library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel. Audio HALs call the audio_route
library which loads audio routes from an XML and controls the mixer through tinyalsa
.
Format of mixer_paths.xml
- ALSA controls are defined by
ctl
elements. - Audio routes are defined by
path
elements. Apath
element contains a collection ofctl
elements as well as otherpath
elements. - The path
name
attribute is used to select an audio route.
Headphone jack
Android kernels use switch_class
kernel driver to notify the Android frameworks of headphone jack events. The driver source code can be located at:
drivers/switch/switch_class.c
or
drivers/staging/android/switch/switch_class.c
. Note that the switch class driver is an Android specific driver. It has not been upstreamed to the mainline kernel.
In userspace the WiredAccessoryManager monitors the /sys/class/switch/h2w
for uevents when the headphone is (un)plugged.
Udev rules can be used to detect if headphones are plugged in, example for this is from xiaomi-santoni
Getting Audio to work on non-Android userspace
Bring up Android DSP subsystem
This is most likely for downstream kernels, if you're using a mainline kernel, this is pointless. |
This was only tested on Qualcomm MSM8937, this might also work on other chipset too, but this is untested. |
ADSP needs to be powered on before audio could work on downstream kernels. To do that, you'll have to supply firmware files that is available on your internal MMC.
On a shell prompt inside postmarketOS, type fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
(replace mmcblk0 with the correct device name for internal MMC). At this point you should get a familiar partition layout of a Android device.
Now, the only thing that is important is the partition with modem
label on it, which on my device it's mmcblk0p1. Mount the partition as read-only to /mnt using:
# mount -o ro /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt
Inside /mnt, there is a folder named image
which has a bunch of firmware files for different parts of the device, like wcnss (for wlan), DRM contents and so on, the only thing that needs to be extracted is all the files that named adsp.*
:
// Create /lib/firmware/postmarketos if it doesn't exist # mkdir -p /lib/firmware/postmarketos // Copy all adsp.* to the postmarketOS firmware directory # cp -v /mnt/image/adsp.* /lib/firmware/postmarketos
After that, you should be able to bring up the ADSP subsystem by running:
# echo 1 > /dev/subsys_adsp
You should check dmesg and /var/log/firmwareload.log to make sure there aren't firmwares failing to load.
If it goes fine, you should see a bunch of playback devices by typing aplay -l
You also want to install adsp-audio
from pmOS repo to load the subsystem on automatically on bootup.
Convert XML audio to UCM
This section is incomplete. It requires a reference to more complete documentation of the device config XML format. |
The audio routes in Linux userspace can be defined in ALSA UCM configuration files. There is a tool called xml2ucm which will convert the Android mixer_paths.xml
and a device config XML to UCM files. The xml2ucm
tool introduces the device config XML which provides necessary routing information that was hardcoded in the audio HAL on Android.
The mixer_path.xml
is commonly found in the Android device repository. (e.g. android_device_lge_hammerhead
). You must write the device config XML for your device.
Format of device config XML
A device config XML describes a sound card with use cases and sets of audio routes. In the examples available at the moment there is only one use case named HiFi. Under each <use-case>
there are multiple <device>
elements. In this context a <device>
means audio route(s) which comprise a logical audio device (e.g. Headphone, Headset, Speaker).
Android audio HALs can and do select multiple audio routes at once. For example a headset can have a headphone output route and a microphone input route. To handle this a <device>
element (the headset) can contain multiple <path>
elements (audio routes). Example device config XML files are provided in the xml2ucm
repository.
The ctl-device
must be the name of the sound card which can be obtained using aplay
. In the following example from the Samsung p4wifi the ctl-device
is the sound card named wm8994aif1
.
$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=wm8994aif1
wm8994-aif1,
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=wm8994aif1
wm8994-aif1,
Default Audio Device
Once the mixer_path.xml
and device config XML are converted to UCM format then an audio route can be set by using alsaucm
.
Example:
$ alsaucm -c wm8994aif1 set _verb HiFi set _enadev Headphones
libhybris
Might not work on some devices, which in this case providing logs to the maintainer is required, and debugging is also needed too. |
Alexey Min (minlexx) is currently packaging pulseaudio-modules-droid to the repository.
Build and install pulseaudio-modules-droid package first, then add this to /etc/pulse/default.pa
before the line that loads module-alsa-sink:
load-module module-droid-card load-module module-droid-sink load-module module-droid-source
Start pulseaudio in verbose mode to make sure you can get to see if the module loads successfully. If it does then you should be able to play sound files using paplay
from pulseaudio-utils package.
If you hear sounds coming from it, it works perfectly fine, if not, check dmesg, pulseaudio log and logcat.
You might also want to install alsa-plugins-pulse for ALSA backend on PulseAudio.
alsactl method
Cascardo reported having success with the following method on Debian, this should work for postmarketOS as well:
I ran a debian chroot on a cyanogenmod, set the volume up, then ran alsactl save on the chroot. booted into debian, then after alsactl restore was run, I had audio working
so, in summary, it's hard to know which mixer settings will make it work, so my strategy was running some android stack that correctly set the mixer, then saving the state with a chroot or any other tool that would allow you to save, copy and restore that state later on a gnu stack
This method may work for non-Android devices as well, as long as you see an audio device in alsamixer
. Just boot the normal OS, save the volume settings somehow, then restore them.
WM1811
This audio chip is present in several Samsung devices that are based on the Exynos 4412 platform. There is a configuration for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 available at the opensgn project. Have a look at the files in opensgn/data/n8000/usr/share/alsa/ucm/Midas_WM1811/
.
In opensgn/data/n8000/etc/rc.local
there are the commands to use the configuration:
# restore alsa sinitial tate /usr/sbin/alsactl restore -f /usr/share/alsa/ucm/Midas_WM1811/init.state # enable speaker for output and builtin mic for input /usr/bin/alsaucm -c Midas_WM1811 set _verb HiFi set _enadev Speaker /usr/bin/alsaucm -c Midas_WM1811 set _verb HiFi set _enadev Mic
For other devices the configuration might need to be adapted. On the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 for example, the audio device is named "Kona_WM1811". Replacing all occurrences in file names and file contents of Midas
by Kona
worked.
Mainline
Troubleshooting audio input
A nice way to troubleshoot audio input is to run arecord in a terminal to get realtime audio levels of the default alsa input:
$ arecord -vv --format=dat /dev/null
Recording WAVE '/dev/null' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin
Its setup is:
stream : CAPTURE
access : RW_INTERLEAVED
format : S16_LE
subformat : STD
channels : 2
rate : 48000
exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
msbits : 16
buffer_size : 24000
period_size : 6000
period_time : 125000
tstamp_mode : NONE
tstamp_type : GETTIMEOFDAY
period_step : 1
avail_min : 6000
period_event : 0
start_threshold : 1
stop_threshold : 24000
silence_threshold: 0
silence_size : 0
boundary : 6755399441055744000
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See also
- #1328 Audio added to samsung-p4wifi with udev rules for redirecting audio to headphones when plugging them in
- How to convert Android Audio configurations to alsa/pulseaudio
- pmaports!238 Audio added to samsung-i927, running close to mainline