Comment 9 for bug 817943

I wonder what happened with David Henningsson' patch.
In oneiric the headphones still did not work out of the box.

However I did find a workaround in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/218817
comment #19
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-micsense
in /etc/modprobe/alsa-base.conf
also works for me.