<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:promac@gmail.com">promac@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Andre Costa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blueser@gmail.com" target="_blank">blueser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:15, Andre Costa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blueser@gmail.com" target="_blank">blueser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Tim,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:15, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:26 -0200, Andre Costa wrote:<br>
> my desktop computer has one of those front headphones connectors, and<br>
> it always worked (always = since Fedora8), playing the same audio that<br>
> goes to the front speakers. I tried it today and it doesn't work<br>
> anymore,<br>
<br>
</div>Open up the volume controls and see if there's a separate volume control<br>
just for the headphones. You might have to wallow through the<br>
preferences to add more controls.</blockquote></div><div><br>Thks for the tip, but I had already done that. There's a chekcbox for headphone, which is checked. I also tried playing with every track volume level that seemed reasonable, but it did not work.<br>
<br>(if anyone can provide more info on any specific settings that would affect headphone sound, that'd be great...)<br> <br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> my guess is that some of the recent updates might have changed<br>
> something on audio config<br>
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</div><br>You might look through /var/log/yum.log to see what's been recently<br>
updated, and see if they're a likely cause.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>I took a look, but thet fact is that I can't precise when it stopped working, so the timeframe could be long... =(<br><br>Thks anyway for your help.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Andre<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div>Just a quick update: it's a bug with the lastest kernel. Headphone works with kernel 2.6.26.6-79. I filed it as bug #472317:<br><br><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472317" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472317</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div></div><div><br><br>In fact, this happened to me when I upgraded to alsa driver <a href="http://1.0.18." target="_blank">1.0.18.</a><br>Going back to alsa-driver 1.01.7 solves the problem. I think your kernel<br>
is using 1.0.18, and I doubt anyone is going to fix it.<br>
<br>The only option is reporting in the alsa-devel list , and maybe someone there<br>can do anything about it. <br></div></div><font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Well, after some work, we found out that alsa 1.0.18 (snd-hda-intel) is testing if something<br>
is plugged to the front panel, to cut the sound on the back. <br>Unfortunately, some boards only detect the presence of jacks connected<br>to the back of the computer. Plugging, say a headphone, to the front does not change anything.<br>
Therefore, the sound on the front of the computer is never activated.<br><br>I will test an alsa patch for my codec soon. But maybe other codecs were affected too...<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br>LCG - UFRJ<br>