Created attachment 373054 [details] Output from alsa-info.sh Description of problem: Since Fedora 11 and continuing in Fedora 12, there is no way to turn off the built-in external speaker on my computer. Even though headphones are plugged in, the external speaker always plays. No controls in alsamixer offer any controls to change this In Fedora 10 and previous releases, there was a switch to turn on or off headohne jack sense, but that is no longer present. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alsa-lib-1.0.21-3.fc12.i686 kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plugin headphones 2. Play sound in any application Actual results: External speaker always plays sound, as well as headphones. Expected results: External speaker turns off, when headphones are inserted. Additional info: Attaching also-info.txt for hardware- and alsa info
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Created attachment 459751 [details] Alsa info on same hardware, Fedora 14 64 bit Problem is unchanged on Fedora 14 64 bit
I can confirm the bug. On Fedora 11 64 bit sound worked fine but with release 12, 13 and now 14, the jack sense issue has been unsolved. I searched the internet for days and tried out everything. The only workaround that worked for me was this: 1.) edit file /etc/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf by appending the following line: options snd-hda-intel model=auto position_fix=1 2.) reboot 3.) run alsamixer and make sure that headphone and speaker channels are not muted and have a sufficiently high volume setting (on my machine, the speaker channel's volume setting was zero although I did not set it to this before) I would like to propose that this bug be re-prioritized to high because there are tons of people out there who have this problem and it is clearly a show stopper. Many people out there are also wondering why kmix isn't showing more than one channel as it ought to be. Few know about the internal reasons (switch from being an ALSA frontend to being a PulseAudio frontend). Furthermore, it is difficult for an end user to wrap one's head around the linux sound architecture. There are just too many terms involved and not enough documentation explaining the orchestration of the former. For example: suggested workarounds for the jack sense issue encompassed the following terms/architectures/apps: phonon, kmix, ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, Xine, GStreamer, alsamixer, pavucontrol to just name a few. In addition, there is no information to be found on the whereabouts of files like /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf or where to find the corresponding file in Fedora 14 KDE. An end user - even willing to experiment - is very unlikely to understand the sound architecture and fix this issue. I therefore strongly suggest to address this issue as soon as possible and issue it as a bugfix release. Furthermore, I encourage to add a diagram to the Fedora release documentation that depicts the sound architecture and the relationship between the abovementioned terms.
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug_Intel_HDA Basically, for best hardware support, the ALSA driver must have specific code (we call it model) following the hardware configuration. Try all models for your codec (see URL above).
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