Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

Pierre Ossman
2005-03-04T00:44:25Z

Nish Aravamudan wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:51:40 +0100, Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> 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