headphone jack dosen't work on laptop on F11... any ideas?

[David Lam]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:46 PM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:13:49 -0700
> David Lam <david.k.lam1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > running 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64 on my hp pavillion laptop,  when I
> > plug in headphones I expect for the speakers to be muted and sound to
> > come in the headphones, but I find there isn't any affect-- namely,
> > sounds till comes from the speakers and no sound in the headphones
> > just as if I hadn't plugged them in, in the first place.
> >
> > anyone experience/fix something like this before?
>
> I see occasional messages on the alsa lists for this on various
> hardware, as well as occasional messages about patches fixing it for
> certain hardware.  It usually means that there is a configuration error
> in the driver.  You should run the alsa-info.sh script so you identify
>
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh
> your hardware correctly (or aplay -l which is easier) and then do a web
> search with your alsa driver, card, and headphone.  There are fixes
> going into the alsa drivers all the time so you might want to pick up
> the latest driver snapshot, compile it, and load the module for your
> card to see if it fixes the problem.
>
> If you don't find a fix and you have the programming chops, you could
> fix the driver and submit a patch.
>
> There used to be links to tarball snapshots by Takashi Iwai of the
> alsa packages on the alsa website, but I don't see them anymore.  There
> is a link to the git repository under developers and the latest stable
> release.
>
> http://alsa-project.org/
>
> nice nice... thanks for the tip
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