Headphones and microphone not working after 11.10 upgrade

[alex]

"Upgraded"to 11.10

One of the many joys is that headphones and external microphone no longer work.

Sound settings reports they are plugged in but nothing is played out of the them. External speakers and microphone work (just)

Alsa output information can be found at
 http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=51ffdaf54770c81f58d258dd26dc8223087ab8be

I found a work a round. Go to Sound settings>hardware>profile change from Analogue Stereo Duplex input to Anolgue input and back again to Analguoe Stereo Duplex and now it works until headphones unplugged and plugged back in. not tested whether this solves microphone problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for alsa-driver (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]