No jack/external sound OR both internal and jack/external sound

[Reschat]

Firs: Laptop (Acer Travelmate 2480) - Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - Internal and external (jack) speakers

I have a problem after upgrading to Feisty Fawn. At first I didn't have any sound but after trying this:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
and inserting this line:

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

I now have sound. But now the way I like it.
With my external speakers pluged in jack there are still sound comming out of the internal speakers (like before). The problem is that there in alsamixer is no "surround" volume setting which there was before (in Edgy - or when the sound didn't work) to control the volume of the internal speakers.
And now the "front" volume setting is not just for en external speakers (like it was before) - but for both the external and internal speakers (but this is NOT a problem - since I always had it at max anyway).

But I would like a setting to turn down (or off) the volumen of the internal speakers in alsamixer (or OSS?)

I hope someone can help me.

By the way: There are no Xes out of "alsa-utils" in "sudo sysv-rc-conf". But I really don't think there was that in Edgy either.

[Reschat]

I really need this so I was hoping that someone had an idea or two.

Please...

[silverglade00]

Try changing it to model=acer. I believe that acer has their own model type that needs it. You might also try 3stack or laptop if that doesn't work.

You might also need to compile and run the latest alsa drivers. I had to do that for my HP laptop. It wouldn't mute the speakers when I plugged the headphones in.

[Reschat]

I have tryed some diffirent things. But model=acer actually worked.

Thank you so very much. Sometime the simple solution is the right one.

[dannica12345]

I have the acer aspire 3680 laptop
when i plug in my external speakers, I HAVE NOTHING!
i did a while ago today but then i rebooted and poof its gone. i think i had a virus or sumthing that was doing good instead of bad, whatever it was it is gone now
its been like this since the day i got my comp and im runing xp mce.
im sick of having to use my ipod to play music throught my speakers.
and when i watch movies all i have is the stupid speakers it came with, which i can whisper over and still hear my self even at the loudest.
pleeeeaaaase someone help!

and i dont normally post on forums, so if me posting here was wrong, im sorry, but its almost the same prob, so i think it should be ok

Diana

[dannica12345]

P.S.
my email address is diana_vishloff@yahoo.ca

[Reschat]

dannica12345 - Which version of Ubuntu do you have?

And if you use Feisty Fawn then try what I wrote in my first post in this thread - but maybe with "model=acer" instead of "model=auto".

[Reschat]

I need some help again. silverglade00 ?
Same thing.

I still have model=acer - but after a crash it dosn't work anymore.
And if I set model=auto it does like it did before. Both internal and external at the same time.

My computer crashed while I was using xev and pressed the "play/pause" button. My music player (Listen) played and pause again and again and again. I don't really know why.
Nothing responded so I had to press (and hold) the turn on/off button on my computer. And now no external sound.

Anybody?

[Reschat]

It is actually the same problem as to begin with (something have changed the ACER-settings).
But the solution before was:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

But like I said - something was changed. It dosn't work anymore. It is the same with:

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop
options snd-hda-intel model=xyz
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

(one at the time)

So does anybody know how to "reset" the ACER-alsa-settings or something?
I really need this. model=auto still have sound on both internal and external speakers - but how can I then use a headset when the sound is still comming out of the internal speakers?

Any ideas please. Thanks.

[Reschat]

I don't get it. But suddently it works.

This morning (Denmark) I tryed what I did yesterday and how the sound works like before (good!).

I did this:

- Reinstall all app. with the word "alsa" in it

- Removed:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

from /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.modprobe

- Changed:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

to

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop position_fix=1

in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

- And then finally ran:

 kill $(lsof -t /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*) ; sudo modprobe -r $(lsmod |grep ^snd |awk '{print $1}') && sudo modprobe snd-hda-codec && sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel model=acer

If it works after a restart - I don't know. I'll edit this post to tell later after I'd had the time to try.
Thanks everyone for trying

*EDIT* Works after restart.