Error with hdajackretask

original username · 2018-04-12 20:28:52

My headphone jack on my laptop recently broke, and after some Google searches I found that you can supposedly override the mic port to act as a headphone jack with "hdajackretask". When I try to apply the changes I want, it gives me this error:

tee: /sys/class/sound/hwC0D1/reconfig: Device or resource busy

There's this that appears in the terminal:

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
0x19 0x042110f0
0x1a 0x95a701f0
0x1b 0x042110f0
0x1c 0x400001f0
0x1d 0x400001f0
0x1e 0x400001f0
0x1f 0x921701f0
0x20 0x400001f0
0x22 0x400001f0
0x23 0x400001f0
1

Also, if it helps, these are the options set for the mic jack: https://i.imgur.com/pAKIeWs.png

R00KIE · 2018-04-12 20:43:49

At a minimum I would make sure nothing is trying to use the sound card, that includes pulseaudio. Kill pulseaudio and give it another try.

original username · 2018-04-12 21:07:23

That seems to have worked, thanks

original username · 2018-04-12 23:08:19

Actually, although the audio now works through that port, it seems distorted as if it's clipping, and seems to lack some bass.

R00KIE · 2018-04-13 21:33:24

Although the codec can retask the jacks, I'd say that the path from codec to the mic jack was never designed with the intent of using it as an output so you can expect things to not work too well. That said for the lack of bass most probably you can't do anything, but for the clipping I would check if there are any options you can change (in/with hdajackretask) that might make it better.

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#1 2018-04-12 20:28:52

Error with hdajackretask

#2 2018-04-12 20:43:49

Re: Error with hdajackretask

#3 2018-04-12 21:07:23

Re: Error with hdajackretask

#4 2018-04-12 23:08:19

Re: Error with hdajackretask

#5 2018-04-13 21:33:24

Re: Error with hdajackretask

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