speakers not workingthrough docking station

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Sam, others,

2009/2/27 Sam Wetmore <sam at wetmore.homelinux.com>:
>  Re: Dell D810 Laptop
> found the solution:
> The issue was that by default alsa outputs on the digital output of the d/port. if you go into alsamixer and turn down "IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA" all the way, and make sure that "IEC958" is not muted, the analog port will work.
>
> and this:
>
>  Dell D610 Laptop in Feisty
> In Feisty Fawn, I had to go into Volume Control (by clicking the volume icon in the status area of the desktop), select Preferences, check the box next to IEC958, and then I got a tab "Switches" where I could check a box next to IEC958.

This seems to be working OK now without any mixer tweaking on the F11
Beta Snapshot. Can anyone else confirm? I don't think there was bug
report about it.

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