From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JmfB8-0002T0-Uj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:14:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ADFAE07FB; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.200]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20653E07FB for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (ool-182c9ffc.dyn.optonline.net [24.44.159.252]) by mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JZH00K7SY3OWJA1@mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:14:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:15:11 -0400 From: Richard Marzan Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations In-reply-to: <1201659115.7047.23.camel@localhost> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <1208481311.7002.29.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1201659115.7047.23.camel@localhost> X-Archives-Salt: d1641b3e-6311-4cde-a423-0096724a5cc7 X-Archives-Hash: 052379c43be4e697f0c81bbba20da454 On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:11 -0500, Richard Marzan wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > > I tried googling around but no helpful content so far. I have a > > laptop with built-in sound. It uses the HDA_intel kernel module. My > > problem is that I can't silence the onboard/built-in speakers when I > > plug in the headphones to the machine. Muting sound would lead to all > > jacks and audio ports to be silenced -- not just the built-in > > speakers, which I intend to mute solely leaving sound alive on the > > headphone jacks. There are no channels readily observable to > > differentiate where sound goes and to which port with alsa-mixer. The > > behavior I would like to achieve is one that will allow me to mute > > onboard speakers while continuing to have the headphones receive > > audio signals. Has anyone ever done this? Any pointers to > > documentation will be appreciated. > > Is it a Dell with an ICH8 chipset? This is a well known bug and is fixed > in alsa-1.0.15. I have this same problem on my Dell D830 which runs > Gentoo and Ubuntu. > > On Ubuntu I use a backported kernel and > 'options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m42' in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base There was someone who asked for me to keep him or her updated with this effort and this is why I'm posting back to the post with this info. Well, a few months later and sound jack sound isolation issue is corrected. Upgrade to ALSA-DRIVER 1.0.16 and you should be fine. You might have to unmask it. Sound now ceases to emanate from my speakers when headphones are plugged into my laptop (HP dv6645us). All thanks to Tobin Davis and the alsa-project and a surprise from emerge --sync && emerge -uDNtv world Here is my output from the alsa-info shell script, I hope this helps someone out: http://pastebin.ca/988978 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list