[K40IJ/K50IJ, VIA VT1708S, Green Headphone Out, Rear] No automute

[razzihaider]

whenever i plug in my headphone jack into laptop, the speakers of laptop and the headphone both continue to sound, the laptop speakers are not automatically muted. i have checked all the steps through your forums but the problem is un resolved, i would definitely say that this is a bug in your Ubuntu and you people haven't fixed it yet.

Ubuntu is still full of bugs even after so many releases, i like it, but it is difficult to use rather than windows, i am also having problems with mounting NTFS partitions in this release, although ntfs-3g is already installed but two of my NTFS drives are also not visible in gnome.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.24+dfsg-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: razzi 1508 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe9f4000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'VIA VT1708S'
   Components : 'HDA:11060397,10431111,00100000'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 16
Date: Wed Jun 8 02:20:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: Internal Audio - HDA Intel
Symptom_Jack: Green Headphone Out, Rear
Symptom_Type: No auto-mute between outputs
Title: [K40IJ, VIA VT1708S, Green Headphone Out, Rear] No automute
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/10/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 209
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: K40IJ
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr209:bd07/10/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnK40IJ:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnK40IJ:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: K40IJ
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alessio "Spinus" Moscatello (spinus)]

I'm adding K50IJ to the title, because I've the same problem...
An additional note: when I was using Natty I where able to mute the laptop speaker unmuting "front channell" and then switching it to 100%: doing so the internal speaker where muted, and the external headphones where unmuted...now in Oneiric regulating front channel changes internal speaker and external headphones in the same way.

[djdg (djdg)]

I have an Asus K50IJ also, and by changing it everytime manually to 'headphone speakers' in ubuntu 11.04 it was fixed. But now in 11.10 oneeric there is no difference when I do that. I'm sorry to see that the problem has come back :( Please keep me updated about this, as I will also do myself.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Hrm, so there is indeed a problem with the volume control named "Front" - on some computers, the headphones are affected when you change "Front", on other computers "Front" controls the speakers. I e, you can't make a global decision whether to mute the "Front" control when headphones are plugged in, because you'll screw up either one machine or the other. :-(

The solution is to try to rename "Front" to "Speaker" in the node below. Would any of you mind testing https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/UpgradingAlsa/DKMS to make sure upstream hasn't already done this? Thanks.

Node 0x1c [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out
  Control: name="Front Playback Switch", index=0, device=0
    ControlAmp: chs=3, dir=Out, idx=0, ofs=0
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80]
  Pincap 0x0001001c: OUT HP EAPD Detect
  EAPD 0x2: EAPD
  Pin Default 0x90070110: [Fixed] Line Out at Int N/A
    Conn = Analog, Color = Unknown
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
    Misc = NO_PRESENCE
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=04, enabled=1
  Power states: D0 D1 D2 D3
  Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
  Connection: 1
     0x16

[Alessio "Spinus" Moscatello (spinus)]

Thanks for the tip, I've installed alsa-hda-dkms version 0.201111181453~oneiric1 and now it works perfectly: plugging in the jack mutes only the internal speakers...now what I should do? There is a way to suggest Ubuntu mantainer to upgrade alsa to the latest version? Or it will be upgraded only in the next release of Ubuntu?

Regards,
Alessio

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

It is highly likely to be included in the next release of Ubuntu. Because the problem is non-trivial, it is unlikely that it reaches Ubuntu 11.10.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.
Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) reached end-of-life on October 28, 2012.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.