Have to manually switch sink to headphones when plugging in (Dell Latitude D630) 8086:284b Codec: SigmaTel STAC9205

[Janne Hyötylä]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

On my Dell Latitude D630 laptop and Ubuntu < 9.10, I was able to have sound from the built-in speakers, then plug in headphones to stereo-out and automatically have the speakers muted and play sound on the headphones.

On Karmic, this no longer works.

When plugging in headphones, I have to manually start pavucontrol, then switch Output Device "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" to port "Analog Headphones" from port "Analog Output". Vice versa when unplugging the headphones.

If I have the wrong port selected, no sound at all will be played, i.e:
When playing sound on the speakers, then plugging in headphones, speakers will turn off, but headphones remain silent as well. Same thing when playing sound on the headphones and then unplugging them.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: janne 8730 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: janne 8730 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9205'
   Components : 'HDA:838476a0,102801f9,00100204 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000'
   Controls : 25
   Simple ctrls : 16
Date: Sat Aug 8 21:18:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.16~test4-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

 duplicate 409887

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

similar to bug #410769

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Hi Janne

this must be solved with

pulseaudio (1:0.9.16~test5-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Daniel T Chen ]
  * debian/patches/0051-leave-hp-enabled.patch: Leave
    headphones enabled in the default analog mixer profiles

In case that you still experience this issue after update, please let us now

[Martin Vysny (vyzivus)]

In my case, if the Headphone ALSA mixer option is turned on, the notebook speakers will play music even when the external headphones are connected. If I try to mute the Headphone ALSA setting, entire PulseAudio gets muted. If I un-mute the PulseAudio the Headphone ALSA mixer option is turned back on.
Is there a way to mute the Headphone mixer setting without muting the PulseAudio itself?