Comment 4 for bug 1309950

@Raymond @superquad-vortex2

Thanks but you dont really explain HOW to do that - maybe because the report is detailed? I 'm fairly new to linux and I just filled out the Ubuntu crash form which was helluva lot more intuivitive than past forms - most of the data in there is auto-generated (apart from my note).

However I was able to solve this, in the report I noticed ALSA while previously I've only ever seen Pulse Audio, I looked up 'auto switching intel HDA alsa' on google which led me to an ArchLinux forum with someone in my EXACT same situation. One of the answers mentioned trying hda-verb which is how I found my solution:

1 - open up Ubuntu software Center
2 - search for alsa-tools-gui (I found this originally by typing 'hda', this popped up immediately)
3 - install it
4 - This is a COLLECTION of programs for the ALSA system - All need to be run from a terminal / command line window.
5 - type in hdajackretask in the terminal window and you'll get an awesome graphical list of which audio jack does what by default along with options to override the function of each jack (in my case I wanted the Blue jack in the rear to function as another speaker/headphone out jack)

I used this to fix the issue for now, but I implore the Ubuntu folk to include this tool by default!