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Stephen E. Baker e505374cfd default.pa for Samsung Chromebook Plus (#14)
Include a default.pa file which corrects the volume level for the Samsung Chromebook Plus so that volume hotkeys and volume sliders in the desktop environment behave correctly over 0-100%.
2018-02-21 13:43:07 -07:00

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Xorg

  • The Mali T860MP4 GPU is not supported at this time. Therefore, no particular Xorg drivers are needed. The built in modesetting driver will correctly detect the display.
  • xf86-input-libinput is preferred over evdev and synaptics for the best experience with the touchpad and touchscreen.

Audio

Use alsaucm (part of the alsa-utils package) to set up the sound card:

ALSA_CONFIG_UCM=/opt/alsa/ucm alsaucm -c rk3399-gru-sound set _verb HiFi

Note that the port will display as "Headphones" despite using the speakers. When paired with pulseaudio and pulseaudio-alsa, be aware that the full volume range is addressed through levels 0-9 of the Master volume control. Levels 10-100 provide no additional gain.

If using pulseaudio, the following can be placed in your ~/.config/pulse/default.pa file to create a loopback device that fixes the volume levels, so that 0-100% in a desktop environment's volume bar will correspond to the audio level heard in the spaker.

.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
  
load-module module-null-sink sink_name=corrected_speakers sink_properties=device.description=corrected_speakers

load-module module-loopback source=corrected_speakers.monitor sink=alsa_output.platform-sound.stereo-fallback remix=false

set-sink-volume alsa_output.platform-sound.stereo-fallback 6553

set-default-sink corrected_speakers