HP NC4200: internal speaker is not muted when headphones are connected

[psl]

Ubuntu 10.10 i386

Sounds at notebook HP NC4200 works. I have an issue with internal speaker. When I connect headphones I expect that internal speaker will be muted. But it is not and I hear sounds from headphones and from internal speaker. WinXP works as expected.

I think this bug is a duplicate to #485705. I was asked to create new bug report by apport.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: psl 1508 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'ICH6'/'Intel ICH6 with AD1981B at irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B'
   Components : 'AC97a:41445374'
   Controls : 25
   Simple ctrls : 18
CheckboxSubmission: 0302a08aa0567ad8161cf7b1b0263ef0
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Fri Mar 11 13:42:11 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
dmi.bios.date: 10/30/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68DTH Ver. F.0F
dmi.board.name: 0938
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 38.59
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: HP-NC4200
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68DTHVer.F.0F:bd10/30/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqnc4200(EK145ES#ABU):pvrF.0F:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn0938:rvrKBCVersion38.59:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq nc4200 (EK145ES#ABU)
dmi.product.version: F.0F
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[psl (slansky)]

I see the same problem at notebook HP NC6000.

[psl (slansky)]

Ubuntu 11.04, i386: Not fixed!

WORKARROUND from CLI:

1) find ALSA control for HEADPHONE SENSE (it is 26 at NC4200, 32 at NC6000, etc):

nc4200$ amixer controls | grep -i sense
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Jack Sense'
numid=27,iface=MIXER,name='Line Jack Sense'

2) Activate 'Headphone Jack Sense':

nc4200$ amixer cset numid=26 on
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Jack Sense'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
  : values=on

3) Store ALSA configuration (to file/var/lib/alsa/asound.state):

nc4200$ sudo alsactl store

And the problem is fixed! Not difficult but I was searching this trick for several weeks...

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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