SOLVED Headphone & Speaker Issue SOLVED

[curson]

Just FYI, the update to 9.10 Karmic Koala solved the problem for me on a Sony Vaio VGC series, with a "vanilla" configuration, nothing special done

Loving this version already

[LuK_green]

I've got an ASUS F3Ke laptop with a Realtek ALC660-VD chip. In times of 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope the line "options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo" worked good, but not now. In 9.10 Karmic Koala everything goes as usual by default. I mean speakers sound along with headphones. So I've added the options-lenovo line that helped me much in times of 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. In the new "Sound Preferences" dialog, in the "Output" tab I switched to "Analog Headphones" from "Analog Output". Speakers muted, but the sound from headphones was so faint, so I could hardly hear it =((( Please help.

[LuK_green]

Solved. The trouble was that now, in 9.10 Karmic Koala, it is possible to regulate channel volumes only through console alsamixer app.

[fenrir12]

It took me a while to find, but with a STAC9205 card in a Gateway M-series running Karmic, these steps got me sound in my headphones!

http://blog.wessendorf.org/software/.../#comment-3219

[XProflmfao]

It looks like this is heading me in the right direction. However, when I enter the command-

sudo gedit /ect/modprobe.d/alsa.base

I open a window named-

*alsa.base (ect/modprobe.d) - gedit

this window is completely blank. But I tried entering the text anyways-

options snd-hda-intel model=vaio

And I get an error message reading-

Could not save the file [i]/ect/modprobe.d/alsa.base[i] unexpected error, file not found

So I close out that window and I have an error message on my terminal, basically saying the same thing...

I would think that file would be named the same in Mint as in Ubuntu, but maybe I am wrong..? Maybe I am missing something?

EDIT:: OK THE WINDOW HAS TEXT IN IT, ITS JUST HIDDEN! THANKS!!

How do you make it show the hidden text? Because I've been searching for a while on Gedit and I still haven't found the solution to show it. Gosh, I'm so close to finally solving the biggest problem on my computer but this step just ruins everything!

[Marc Di Pinto]

I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S2276... Could anyone explain to me what to do?
I'm new to Linux. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10

[fabian.g]

Hello everyone. I have the same problem. Speakers don't go quiet, when i plug in my headphones.

I have an ASUS X5DAD Notebook. The Soundcard is:
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xfbcf4000 irq 16
and the codec is:
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
Codec: VIA VT1708S ...

The codec is NOT listed in HD-Audio-Models.txt which I guess is not good The card is working though (I hear sound). So it is after all supported in one way or another. The speaker-headphone problem remains, though.

I tried adding options snd-hda-intel model=*** to the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file

For *** (model name) I tried a hundred different combinations: auto, laptop-automute, 3stack, asus, targa-dig, ...

If anyone has a solution, that would be really, really great!

Best regards

[pichagi]

well the easier way
download alsamixergui and configure everything
easy living

Just wanted to say you're awesome dude! Been looking for a fix to this problem everywhere. Tried pretty much almost everything. I added a line at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, changed the options and I even compiled the latest version of alsa... Installed alssamixergui through the synaptic package manager in Mint 8, turned on head jack sense and voila! worked like a charm! Did this on my Hp nc8000 laptop

these are my settings

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller
02:06.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller
02:06.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Accelerator
02:06.3 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus Controller
02:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5007G Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801DB-ICH4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[hamid.afshar]

Thanks buddy,

awsome help

[andender]

I had a similar issue with my Gateway 3040GZ Notebook. Sound played fine when Windows was on, no sound after installing Ubuntu 11.10. After searching and searching the internet, i installed the Gnome ALSA Mixer and the Pulse Audio Volume Control. Now I'm not sure if installing these made any difference, however I thought sure I had tried the same settings with the alsamixer.

Solution:
While playing music, I unchecked both "Headphone Jack Sense" and "External Amplifier" and sound started working.