Comment 11 for bug 1256646

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: VT1708B 8-Ch Analog [VT1708B 8-Ch Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: VT1708B 8-Ch Digital [VT1708B 8-Ch Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 2: VT1708B 8-Ch HP [VT1708B 8-Ch HP]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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does the independent phone work in 13.04 ?

when independent hp is ON

Simple mixer control 'Independent HP',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'OFF' 'ON'
  Item0: 'ON'

mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.2 any.wav

you lost the independent headphone device 2 "VT1708B 8-Ch Alt Analog"

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.c?id=55a63d4da3b8850480a1c5b222f77c739e30e346

 and device 1 [VT1708B 8-Ch Digital]

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?id=dcda5806165c155d90b9aa466a1602cf4726012b

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?id=ea9b43addc4d90ca5b029f47f85ca152320a1e8d

seem device 1 in 13.04 change to device 3 in 13.10

and device 3 in 13.04 change to device 7 in 13.10

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/saucy/alsa-lib/saucy-proposed/view/head:/src/conf/cards/HDA-Intel.conf

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: VT1708B 8-Ch Analog [VT1708B 8-Ch Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: VT1708B 8-Ch Digital [VT1708B 8-Ch Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0