Sound is muted when plugging in a headphone although volume is up

Bug #1462229 reported by Bart de Koning
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alsa-driver (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04

When a headphone is plugged in, sound is muted altough the headphone volume is still up.
When I open alsamixer I can regain sound on my headphone by unmuting the speaker channel and increasing the volume on the volume channel. However each time that I unplug my headphone I need to redo this.
So it looks like, in contradiction to how the software is programmed and users understand, the headphone and speaker channels work in serial for headphone output instead of parallel.
Because this used to work for years (at least since Ubuntu 12.04, I used them all), this bug is introduced in the lastest release (15.04).
I also filed this bug in the alsamixer package, but afterwards I realised that I probably have filed it at the wrong spot.

Kind regards,
Bart

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-18.18-generic 3.19.6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: bdekoning 1717 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: bdekoning 1717 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: bdekoning 1717 F.... pulseaudio
                      bdekoning 2184 F.... alsamixer
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jun 5 08:58:16 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-12 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: Intern geluid - HDA Intel MID
Symptom_Jack: Black Headphone Out, Left
Symptom_Type: Volume slider, or mixer problems
Title: [HP ProBook 6550b, IDT 92HD75B3X5, Black Headphone Out, Left] volume slider problem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68CDF Ver. F.04
dmi.board.name: 146E
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 73.12
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU0483Z5Q
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68CDFVer.F.04:bd10/27/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook6550b:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn146E:rvrKBCVersion73.12:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 6550b
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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Bart de Koning (bratdaking) wrote :
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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :

 13.056186] sound hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig: line_outs=1 (0xf/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
[ 13.056190] sound hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=1 (0xd/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 13.056192] sound hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0xa/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 13.056194] sound hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0
[ 13.056195] sound hdaudioC0D0: inputs:
[ 13.056198] sound hdaudioC0D0: Internal Mic=0xc
[ 13.056200] sound hdaudioC0D0: Mic=0xb
[ 13.056201] sound hdaudioC0D0: Line=0xe

Node 0x0f [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400181: Stereo
  Control: name="Headphone Jack", index=0, device=0
  Pincap 0x00000014: OUT Detect
  Pin Default 0x03211030: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Left
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Black
    DefAssociation = 0x3, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
  Unsolicited: tag=02, enabled=1
  Connection: 3
     0x10* 0x11 0x17
Node 0x10 [Audio Output] wcaps 0xd0c05: Stereo Amp-Out R/L
  Control: name="Speaker+LO Playback Volume", index=0, device=0
    ControlAmp: chs=3, dir=Out, idx=0, ofs=0
  Control: name="Speaker+LO Playback Switch", index=0, device=0
    ControlAmp: chs=3, dir=Out, idx=0, ofs=0
  Device: name="92HD75B3X5 Analog", type="Audio", device=0
  Amp-Out caps: N/A
  Amp-Out vals: [0x46 0x46]
  Converter: stream=8, channel=0
  Power states:
  Power: setting=D0, actual=D0
  Delay: 13 samples

seem bug in driver node 0xf was put in line out

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Raymond (superquad-vortex2) wrote :
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

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.

Changed in alsa-driver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in alsa-driver (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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