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 1JJyUW-0004IG-74 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:59:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C353E062B; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E19E0643 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so245339ugf.49 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:57:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=DrgXnHnsVo4PFIe6TGxNCgB3fvRpNLcVbrzjhVZHdkI=; b=XS/Kxqy1FNk2lQ9npj87zCmVMaukhLsiDO8bgk1j4ODnxodikeZoGiHBBnaCF0bCpJrXG/pyQYLU5g8x9EUFzqUZZkAPGw1+6sV63ZATdyx7CzE0quHscd3btKpy7afbpo9bJwdgjgFVH8P/rfq3eI0fNsXSDeUEU+z1pDT9Grk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=sW9gB1KRR1X6Jb2VtacW6NFYzcBvdAIl0sdJp/4DFuL0CenjowgOMxF7IbDF47Rs21pKnBWe2r7Py/rJ7Z69PZz+HNZzV7wIhkKvpeEn2cNTlDUIhkBGU7SnS1bTIrGO01CW7KnAvzHRyA1KqMpNiW/fy7od4sZzGG9RCas8+gU= Received: by 10.67.115.6 with SMTP id s6mr1953067ugm.71.1201643865537; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:57:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.local ( [41.243.235.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l33sm1330366ugc.67.2008.01.29.13.57.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:57:44 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound jack isolations Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:57:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <32F9A50E9B2B5A4AA062A602121DD4F008041E2F@USEA-EXCH3.na.uis.unisys.com> In-Reply-To: <32F9A50E9B2B5A4AA062A602121DD4F008041E2F@USEA-EXCH3.na.uis.unisys.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801292357.39222.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9014235b-6d6a-4395-8a05-5d70edcf04df X-Archives-Hash: 2da426a05948f07dc21f607fd233efac 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 -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list