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#1 2008-05-02 08:59:35

evilviper77
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Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

Ever since I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.25 my headphone sound has been messed up. My audio out port now only sends sound through my headphones when it is partially plugged into it. I can't fully plug in my audio jack now, there is a "sweet spot" so to speak of just almost in that lets me hear sound out of my heaphones. I've tested this on many different headphones and always come up the same and I'm sure it worked just fine on kernel 2.6.24. Any suggestions to get it to work?

Here's my audio device: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

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#2 2008-05-02 15:29:53

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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

This sounds more like a hardware problem to me, than a problem with the kernel.
Are you sure you haven't banged your headphone socket, or something?

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#3 2008-05-02 16:01:42

glad
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

Have the same problem with my headphones, work like it should when i use my normal speakers.

The problem is, when i connect the headphones only the speaker on the left side works, but if i balance alsamixer to the right or the left both speakers works..

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#4 2008-05-02 18:31:14

evilviper77
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

Ink-Jet wrote:

This sounds more like a hardware problem to me, than a problem with the kernel.
Are you sure you haven't banged your headphone socket, or something?

100% sure. Just yesterday I reinstalled arch to make an image of a basic arch install with everything I wanted on a backup harddrive, and the sound worked perfectly. I could plug in the headphones all the way and they would work.

Updated the kernel and then the problem hit. Well actually I uncommented the testing and unstable servers in pacman then ran -Syu and installed the new kernel (among other things) and then the headphones started having issues, guess it could be one of the other testing/unstable packages I downloaded, but I don't remember installing any audio/alsa packages or anything of that sort.

edit: On a parallel note, I have a friend who said alsamixer used to have an option that dealt with this problem, although after I showed him my labtop and he looked around he couldn't find it again.

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#5 2008-05-03 14:10:35

evilviper77
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

So anyone else have this problem? Know how to fix it? Know of any programs I can download that lets me adjust the sensitivity of the audio port?

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#6 2008-05-04 00:02:30

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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

another shameless bump. big_smile

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#7 2008-05-04 22:27:01

evilviper77
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

So, not a one of you who frequent this board have a clue?

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#8 2008-08-03 23:13:30

chimerical_brio
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

Well, I'll bump this. When I installed Arch, I had no problems with my headphones, aka, I could hear fine with the headphone plugged in, but when I update my system, it broke. I have the "sweet spot," too, and it only plays out of the left side when it's plugged all the way in. I'm going to try installing PulseAudio, we'll see...but has anyone fixed this yet?

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#9 2008-08-03 23:24:43

chimerical_brio
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

Well...I feel stupid now. One side of my headphone jack was muted. Unmuted it, works perfectly.

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#10 2008-11-08 00:40:57

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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

Another shameless bump. How can you unmute one side of the headphone jack? I just upgraded all my programs and am now having this problem. One side of my headphone jack is muted, and pressing the 'm' key just switches WHICH side is muted, so I can either hear the sound of the left or right earphone, but not both. If I only plug in the earphones partially, sound comes out of both my speakers and my earphones at the same time and it's in both ears, but this kind of defeats the point of earphones. I can't figure out how to unmute both sides.


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#11 2008-11-08 20:52:43

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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

My modprobe.conf as it has always been:

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# /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
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options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=thinkpad
options ibm_acpi experimental=1

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#12 2008-11-09 01:43:15

crispus
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

After that update my headphone jack doesnt work.  If I boot with headphones plugged in, it works.  If I unplug it and plug it back in, no sound!


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#13 2008-11-09 10:04:12

Ekimino
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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

when you run alsamixer -c 0, what codec is shown? mine for e.g is ALC889 a realtek one, that way we can find the parameters the you can pass to the snd-hda-intel module.

Saludos

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#14 2008-11-10 23:02:24

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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

SigmaTel STAC9205


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#15 2008-11-11 00:34:07

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Re: Headphone/Sound/Audio Jack problem

Ok, finally found the ALSA configuration file. here it goes
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http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Document … ration.txt Try checking the module options for you're codec big_smile. Good Luck!

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