Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

Pierre Ossman
2005-03-07T21:25:39Z

Takashi Iwai wrote:

>At Fri, 04 Mar 2005 22:16:03 +0100,
>Pierre Ossman wrote:
>
>
>>It seems I spoke too soon. The defaults picked by the driver are
>>actually fine. It seems to be alsactl store/restore that did something
>>strange when coming from an older kernel.
>>
>>
>
>My guess is that kmix is the cuplrit.
>kmix tends to turn on all mixer switches uncoditionally, and
>saves/restores the mixer config by itself.
>
>
I use Gnome, not KDE so kmix is not an issue.

>Look at /etc/asound.state whether it contains the value of "Headphone
>Jack Sense" control true or false.
>
>
It saves the setting once I've been in 2.6.11. From an earlier kernel
there is no such entry.

>BTW, the default value of this control switch was fixed for ThinkPads
>on ALSA tree since long time ago, but unfortunately the patch wasn't
>accepted for 2.6.11...
>
>
My machine is a hp/compaq, not a thinkpad, so I don't know if it would
have any effect here.

Rgds
Pierre