[Karmic] Analog headphones insertion not detected / Speakers not mutted

[Loïc Martin]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Under Jaunty (and any previous Ubuntu releases), plugging headphones to the headphone mini-jack out plug cuts sounds to the main speakers (analog) and directs it to the headphone output instead.

In Karmic, that even is not detected, and the sound keep playing on the speakers even though the headphones have been connected. No sound goes to the headphones either, the user has to manually use the volume properties (right click on the sound icon>Preferences) to change the output.

$ lspci -nv | grep -A1 0403
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:3a3e
 Subsystem: 1458:a102

$ ls /proc/asound/card*/codec*
/proc/asound/card0/codec#2

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: t3g 2168 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: t3g 2168 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xea300000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,1458a002,00100101'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 20
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x8b2'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x8b2 at usb-0000:00:1a.0-2, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB046d:08b2'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 3
   Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [30.00dB] [off]
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: t3g 2168 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: t3g 2168 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xea300000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,1458a002,00100101'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 20
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x8b2'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x8b2 at usb-0000:00:1a.0-2, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB046d:08b2'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 3
   Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [30.00dB] [off]
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

I'd like to change the description, since the situation has changed a bit after updates, but Launchpad won't accept it "Entity-body was not a well-formed JSON document."

Here's how the description should now read:

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Under Jaunty (and any previous Ubuntu releases), plugging headphones to the headphone mini-jack out plug cuts sounds to the main speakers (analog) and directs it to the headphone output instead.

In Karmic, that even is not detected, and the sound keep playing on the speakers even though the headphones have been connected. The headphones also have sound (since an update from the first time this bug was reported, initially the headphones didn't get any sound) Manually use the volume properties (right click on the sound icon>Preferences) to change the output to "Analog Headphones" mutes the sound for both speakers and headphones.

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

I also tried adding:
options snd-hda-intel model=auto

to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, but there was no change.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Should be fixed by installing linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic and rebooting.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

(Be sure to test the profile switch, too.)

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

Installing linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic and rebooting didn't bring any changes, I also tried selecting the other profiles in Sound Preferences>Hardware (there's a lot of them ;) ) but no changes either. I can't figure what changed from Gutsy/Hardy/Intrepid/Jaunty.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please attach your /proc/asound/card*/codec* without headphones inserted and
with hp inserted.

On Oct 16, 2009 5:41 PM, "Loïc Martin" <email address hidden> wrote:

Installing linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic and rebooting
didn't bring any changes, I also tried selecting the other profiles in
Sound Preferences>Hardware (there's a lot of them ;) ) but no changes
either. I can't figure what changed from Gutsy/Hardy/Intrepid/Jaunty.

-- [Karmic] Analog headphones insertion not detected / Speakers not mutted
https://bugs.launchpad....

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

I'm probably not doing it the right way, but that's the only thing that comes to mind:
Headphones not inserted:
$ ls /proc/asound/card*/codec*
/proc/asound/card0/codec#2
Headphones inserted:
$ ls /proc/asound/card*/codec*
/proc/asound/card0/codec#2

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Well, instead of 'ls' you want 'cat', but idea is sane.

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

Sorry. Here's the result of ?field.comment=Sorry. Here's the result of the two outputs, the only difference is there:
No headphones plugged:
Node 0x20 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00040: Mono
  Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=17
  Processing Coefficient: 0xf012
  Coefficient Index: 0x01

Headphones plugged:
  Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=17
  Processing Coefficient: 0xc128
  Coefficient Index: 0x02

Coefficient Index just gets incremented each time I run cat, and Processing Coefficient: changes between two cat commands even when there's no changes in headphones plugged or not.

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

Sorry. Here's the result of ?field.comment=Sorry. Here's the result of the two outputs, the only difference is there:
No headphones plugged:
Node 0x20 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00040: Mono
  Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=17
  Processing Coefficient: 0xf012
  Coefficient Index: 0x01

Headphones plugged:
  Processing caps: benign=0, ncoeff=17
  Processing Coefficient: 0xc128
  Coefficient Index: 0x02

Coefficient Index just gets incremented each time I run cat, and Processing Coefficient: changes between two cat commands even when there's no changes in headphones plugged or not.

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

I've run the same command in Jaunty, and it picks up what seems to be the headphones plugged in information. Relevant differences:
Jaunty no headphones:
Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0000373c: IN OUT HP Detect
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
  Pin Default 0x01014410: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26

Jaunty headphones plugged:
Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
  Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00]
  Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
  Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00]
  Pincap 0x0000373c: IN OUT HP Detect
    Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
  Pin Default 0x01014410: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
    Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
    DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
  Pin-ctls: 0x00: VREF_HIZ
  Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
  Connection: 5
     0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

The problem seems to be that part of "cat /proc/asound/card*/codec*":
>Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
> Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
> Amp-In vals: [0x00 0x00]
> Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
> Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00]
> Pincap 0x0000373c: IN OUT HP Detect
> Vref caps: HIZ 50 GRD 80 100
> Pin Default 0x01014410: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
> Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
> DefAssociation = 0x1, Sequence = 0x0
> Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT VREF_HIZ
> Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0
> Connection: 5
> 0x0c* 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x26

In Jaunty, when headphones are inserted, Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT VREF_HIZ is changed to Pin-ctls: 0x00: VREF_HIZ. In Karmic, it stays the same whether headphones are inserted or not.

[Svilen Vassilev (tarakanbg)]

I'm having the same problem on my laptop, attaching the output from /proc/asound/card*/codec* with headphones plugged

[Svilen Vassilev (tarakanbg)]

And output from /proc/asound/card*/codec* with headphones unplugged:

[Svilen Vassilev (tarakanbg)]

Posting once again here just to say that after the very latest update of pulseaudio last night (I guess the final update before the release freeze of 9.10) the issue appears to be resolved for me and the headphones jack insertion is now properly detected, there is audio in the headphones and speakers are properly muted.

[Michele Agostinelli (magostinelli)]

i have done the update, but the speackers continue to play when i insert the headphone jack.

Regards.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@Michele Please install linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic and reboot.

On Oct 30, 2009 5:11 AM, "Michele Agostinelli" <email address hidden>
wrote:

i have done the update, but the speackers continue to play when i insert
the headphone jack.

Regards.

-- [Karmic] Analog headphones insertion not detected / Speakers not mutted
https://bugs.launchpad....

[Loïc Martin (loic-martin3)]

I've got an up-to-date Karmic and linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic installed for a while, but the problem hasn't changed - speakers are still outputting sound even though headphones are plugged in.

[Michele Agostinelli (magostinelli)]

I've installed linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic and insert the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:
options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N model=auto

And now it works!!!

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@Michele Please use "apport-collect -p alsa-base 433633"

[Michele Agostinelli (magostinelli)]

Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: michele 2386 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xda100000 irq 32'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD75B3X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7603,103c3628,00100202'
   Controls : 20
   Simple ctrls : 12
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xda010000 irq 33'
   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]
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserAsoundrc:
 # ALSA library configuration file

 # Include settings that are under the control of asoundconf(1).
 # (To disable these settings, comment out this line.)
 </home/michele/.asoundrc.asoundconf>
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev pulse sambashare vboxusers video

[Dak Ralter (dak.ralter)]

I'm not really concerned about the headset canceling the speakers, but I do have that same issue and it may be related to my real issue of audio being scratchy for some applications. For example, when I reboot, and I go to Sound Preferences -> Input, my mic will be detected and if I talk into it I can see the levels changing to reflect the talking - slightly. Then, if I start a recording program like Sound Recorder, or if I start an application like Counterstrike in Wine, the audio gets garbled and the voice stops working. The only difference I have from the instructions above is I was advised to put this line in alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N model=alc883-6stack-dig

[Coolebrax (coolebrax)]

Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: santiago 2464 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: santiago 2464 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfbe78000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP78 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:83847645,10192814,00100402 HDA:10de0002,10de0101,00100000'
   Controls : 41
   Simple ctrls : 25
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=es_AR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2498): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2611): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2580): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2576): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[oleibrock (oliver-leibrock)]

Hi all,

this affects me as well on my Ubu 9.10 Acer Laptop.

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xb0000000 irq 16

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ lspci
...
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
...

# apport-collect data will follow...

[oleibrock (oliver-leibrock)]

Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: oliverl 2261 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xb0000000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC883'
   Components : 'HDA:14f12bfa,1025010a,00090000 HDA:10ec0883,10250000,00100002'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 14
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
UserGroups: adm audio cdrom fax fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo users vboxusers

[olivier (olivier-potonniee)]

Same problem here on HP compaq nc8000
I installed linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic, and tried successively model=auto, model=laptop, and model=hp in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

[olivier (olivier-potonniee)]

Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: olivier 1607 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'I82801DBICH4'/'Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at irq 11'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B'
   Components : 'AC97a:41445374'
   Controls : 31
   Simple ctrls : 21
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'Interface'/'M-Audio USB Uno MIDI Interface at usb-0000:00:1d.0-2, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB0763:0150'
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

I am affected too. And I think this is a duplicate of bug #414746, so I marked it. If someone disagrees, feel free to unmark it again.

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
                      Intel ICH6 with AD1981B at irq 21

$ aplay -l
**** Liste von PLAYBACK Geräten ****
Karte 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], Gerät 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH6]
  Untergeordnete Geräte: 0/1
  Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: ICH6 [Intel ICH6], Gerät 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH6 - IEC958]
  Untergeordnete Geräte: 1/1
  Untergeordnetes Gerät '0: subdevice #0

$ lspci
...
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
...