audio comes out of speakers when headphones are plugged in on m11x

[James]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

When i plug headphones in the audio will come out of both simultaneously, and there does not seems to be any distinction between the speakers and headphones in the sound preferences, i have an alienware m11x which has 2 headphone jacks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC665 Analog [ALC665 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: james 1498 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf1600000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC665'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0665,10280443,00100003'
   Controls : 17
   Simple ctrls : 10
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf1000000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GT240 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10de000d,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 4
Date: Thu Oct 21 03:07:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
dmi.bios.date: 01/20/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware
dmi.bios.version: A01
dmi.board.name: 0VWGCV
dmi.board.vendor: Alienware
dmi.board.version: A01
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware
dmi.chassis.version: A01
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienware:bvrA01:bd01/20/2010:svnAlienware:pnM11x:pvrA01:rvnAlienware:rn0VWGCV:rvrA01:cvnAlienware:ct8:cvrA01:
dmi.product.name: M11x
dmi.product.version: A01
dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Hi James, and thank you for your bug report. The first we try to ask users with these problems is to try the latest snapshot, do see if it is already fixed upstream. Will you do that and report back? Instructions are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules . Thanks in advance!

[James (jameshilliard)]

Thanks, i have followed the instructions, and it would seem the problem is still exactly the same.

[James (jameshilliard)]

After further investigation into the problem I have determined that using the bottom headphone jack causes the sound to work normally, and that the problem only appears when using the top one, and this is the case with both the upstream and normal alsa driver module. In windows both headphone jacks function identically. If I can be of any help in fixing the other headphone jack let me know.
Thanks

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

It seems like there is no model currently which supports having two headphones at NID 0x19 and 0x1b. A new model needs to be written (or the auto one improved).

[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.]