Hi all. I have come here because I've been banging my head up a wall just trying to figure out how to search for my particular problem; I'm apparently not hitting on the right search descriptors....or it's the same as a similar problem and I've just been staring at the screen for too long. While I've been a Ubuntu user for a while; sound was something that was a low priority on my Linux machines...so I'm in uncharted territory.
I've got a laptop with a Intel HD Audio codec I've been using for ham-radio stuff, it's a realtek ALC chip (can't remember the specific model). In Windows, I have separate devices for the internal speakers, headphone jack, internal microphone, and external microphone jack; this allows me to have my ham software output using the headphone jack, listen on the microphone jack; leaving my internal speakers and microphone free for use. However, I don't have this behavior in Ubuntu. Sound works properly; plug in headphones and speakers are muted and all that jazz...and I indeed can still get audio from either the internal mic or external mic jack.
This is not the behavior I am looking for; I'd like to be able to have all four "Devices" available as in Windows. I would add an external USB sound device; but the current one I has will not work (very well) in Linux, I don't have enough free USB ports, plus I never had much success with USB sound in Linux in general. I have the ability in Win 7 to use my device as effectively two cards; is this even possible in Ubuntu? I currently have the UbuntuGnone flavor of Jaunty installed...although I quickly discovered I'm not a fan of Gnome 3...so I haven't actually gotten much further than doing a default install and checking the sound out (in other words; it wouldn't be an issue for me to wipe clean with vanilla Ubuntu or something).
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