Built-in speakers don't get muted when headphones are plugged

[Lynoure Braakman]

On HP NC8230 (PV406AW#AK8, F.0F) when headphones are plugged in, the build-in speakers don't get muted but keep on playing the same sound as the headphones.

Walkaround:
Pressing mute does not seem to mute the headphones, only the build-in speakers, so one can use mute to be able to listen with headphones.

[Lynoure Braakman (lynoure)]

Forgot to tell: This is on Kubuntu, Dapper flight 6.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please try with current Dapper using linux-image-2.6.15-21.32.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

With alsamixer, you can enable the "Headphone Jack Sense" control, which
makes this work.

[Lynoure Braakman (lynoure)]

Thank you both. Dennis, enabling that from alsamixer helped. Weird that is wasn't so on default as one would except things like listening to music be the most common applicationgs of the headphones.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

The jack sense bit should probably be initialised to be on by default:

        Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
        Product Name: HP Compaq nc8230 (PV406AW#AK8)
        Version: F.0F

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Is this related to and/or a duplicate of either bug #37055 or bug #37409?

[Lynoure Braakman (lynoure)]

Hard to tell, there is so little info on those other bugs, but yes, possibly

[Lynoure Braakman (lynoure)]

Same hardware, same problem on 2.6.20-10, too.

[Alex (flying-sad)]

Integrated speakers not deactivated when headphones has been plugged in. Even gnome volume applet's 'headphones' switcher seems not helping. Muting mutes only headphones, when switcher in checked (speakers still sound).

Using Ubuntu Gutsy 2.6.22-12 on Acer 5052.

[Alex (flying-sad)]

Oh, sorry, i just posted and than recall: should i post another bug instead of comment if i using different hardware?

[sauronsmatrix (aavindraa)]

try alsamixergui

[Alex (flying-sad)]

just tested how it works for me.
1. "headphones" control not movable at all (with plugged and unplagged headphones)
2. when changing sound level with shortcuts on laptop (Fn + Up/Down and muting) front speakers' sound level is still but changes are only with headphones (in alsamixergui moves "Front" control).
3. Front speakers sound is controlled only with "PCM" control.

[mistone (djperegrine)]

I have a hp pavilion s3020n and I get the same results in feisty. It works in windows.

[Marcantonio (marcantonio)]

Same issue running Gutsy. Headphone Jack Sense is missing from volume control. HP nw8440.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Try Gutsy linux-backports-modules which contains ALSA 1.0.15.

[Marcantonio (marcantonio)]

I installed the modules rebooted. No change. How can I be sure that the new modules are the ones being used?

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

grep snd-hda /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep

should show ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/snd-hda-intel.ko

[Marcantonio (marcantonio)]

Shouldn't updates/sound is the location of the new modules? That's was dpkg -L shows.

grepping modules.dep shows:

lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound/core/snd-timer.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound/core/snd-hwdep.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound/core/snd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound/soundcore.ko

[Marcantonio (marcantonio)]

This post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3501600#post3501600

fixed my issue. However, still no checkbox for headphone jack sense.

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

I have the same problem in Ubuntu 7.10 - proposed and backports installed - on an IBM Thinkpad R52.

No music on the bus then eh?

[Douma Motors (agreatwhitebird)]

I trouble with a fresh Gutsy install on my Toshiba a200 (with intel's IHC8 family soundcard).

my speakers worked but my headphone jack wasn't being detected or showing up in the alsa mixer, nor was it working. Speakers didn't mute when I plugged my phones in.

But this fixes a lot of problems with these sound cards, because it ends up hooking you up with the latest alsa drivers, which i found hard to install elsewhere...

THE LINK THAT FIXED MY SOUND:
http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/getting-intel-ich8-family-rev-3-sound-card-to-work-in-gutsy/

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

(Should be resolved in 8.10 alpha 6+)

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The 18 month support period for Feisty Fawn 7.04 has reached it's end of life - http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.04-end-of-life . As a result we are closing the linux-source-2.6.20 task. Additionally, I'm closing the linux-source-2.6.15 task as this does not qualify for a Stable Release Update - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates . Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Per a decision made by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, bugs will longer be assigned to the ubuntu-kernel-team in Launchpad as part of the bug triage process. The ubuntu-kernel-team is being unassigned from this bug report. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies for more information. Thanks.