Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

[Pierre Ossman]

Nish Aravamudan wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:51:40 +0100, Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > I just upgraded to Linux 2.6.11 and the soundcard on my machine went
> > silent. All volume controls are correct and there are no errors
> > reported. But no sound coming from the speakers. And here's the kicker,
> > the headphones work fine!
> > 2.6.10 still works so the bug appeared in one of the patches in between.
> > The sound card is the one integrated into intels mobile ICH4 chipset.
> >    
>
> There was some discussion of this on LKML a while ago. Are you sure
> you have disabled "Headphone Jack Sense" and "Line Jack Sense" in
> alsamixer?
>
> Thanks,
> Nish
>  
This has been rather wildly debated now but yes, muting those enables 
sound. I don't have a docking station so I can't try any effects there.
I wouldn't say that it's intuitive to mute two channels to get speakers 
working though.

Rgds
Pierre

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