sound plays out of headphones and speakers at the same time

[John Teddy]

I just got a brand new laptop, I formatted it with Ubuntu 9.10. Everything worked to my knowledge, except sound.

No sound worked at all. So I found some solution on launchpad link that said install backports-modules-alsa-karmin-generic . So I did, and now sound works (sort of). When I plug in headphones, or external speakers into the headphone jack on the front of my laptop... the speakers keep playing. I have to manually modify the "Speaker" option in alsamixer.

My chipset is SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA). Anyone know more details about the alsa drivers, if I update to the latest trunk will my problem be solved? Is there a deb repository somewhere, or just compile into the kernel? When is this backports-modules-alsa-karmin-generic package updated, because there is a new standard revision that is out I believe (non-trunk). Besides updating alsa to newer code, is there a mode setting in alsa-base.conf that I can add or change to "fix" this problem?

Thanks for any help, it is much appreciated.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: john 1837 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xf2400000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD75B3X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7603,103c3637,00100202 HDA:11c11040,103c137e,00100200'
   Controls : 20
   Simple ctrls : 12
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf2310000 irq 31'
   Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Thu Jan 21 14:44:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1848): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1848): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1951): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1946): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (firefox:2249): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

I can confirm this on a HP HDX9000 with identical sound hardware with "linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic" installed.

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

You need a crack-of-the-day alsa-driver build installed. See the
ubuntu-audio-dev PPA.

[John Teddy (masterjediyoda-gmail-deactivatedaccount)]

I added ubuntu-audio-dev PPA and did an update. It only updated pulseaudio software packages. It didn't update anything alsa.

The internal speaker is still not muted when using the headphone jack.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

You need to install the linux-alsa-driver-modules package from the ubuntu-audio-dev that matches your kernel version. See http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive to find out what packages are available.

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

I have removed "linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic" & installed the crack-of-the-day alsa-driver (including the linux-alsa-driver-modules package) but jack-sensing (if that is what it is called) is still not working on a HP HDX9000.

$ uname -a
Linux hdx-karmic 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

$ sudo apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu4~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu4~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu4~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net karmic-updates/main Packages
     1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net karmic/main Packages

$ sudo apt-cache policy pavucontrol
pavucontrol:
  Installed: 0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu3~ubuntuaudiodev1
  Candidate: 0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu3~ubuntuaudiodev1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu3~ubuntuaudiodev1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.8+git20090701-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net karmic/universe Packages

$ sudo apt-cache policy linux-alsa-driver-modules-2.6.31-19-generic
linux-alsa-driver-modules-2.6.31-19-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.31-19.201002210600
  Candidate: 2.6.31-19.201002210600
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.31-19.201002210600 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Jack-sensing is working on another laptop with a different intel-hda codec, so I don't think it is something that I am doing wrong. Is there any further info that would help with this issue?

[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)]

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