From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manuel Naranjo Subject: Re: Regression on alsa-driver-1.0.18a on HDA for Dell Inspiron 1521 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:11:14 -0200 Message-ID: <491AE402.3030507@aircable.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.248]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CDC24440 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:10:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so409397rvb.32 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:10:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > > Hello guys, > > I just upgraded my alsa from 1.0.16 to 1.0.18a (actually I tried > 1.0.18 for some days, and got lots of kernel crashes, which apparently > 1.0.18a fixes). Thing is that when I try to use my headphones with > 1.0.18a they don't work. > > I'm attaching alsa-info.sh outputs for both 1.0.16 and 1.0.18a too see > if this helps. > > Headphones detection works pretty well, when ever I plug the jack > internal speakers stop working but nothing is coming from the jack. I > can hear an static sounds, so it seems like the headphones are getting > the bias current, but not the signal itself. > > Please let me know how can I help you to debug this problem. > > Regards, > Manuel > Ohh btw, 1.0.18a connects the hardwar beeper, which can only be disabled at compile time, just as a suggestion, isn't there any way to create a way to mute this on runtime? For advanced users like us this is no trouble, but for newbies this is an issue, and might scare them, the beep on a dell laptop is quite annoying (you can't image how annoying it's comming out of the headphones)