No headphones.

[LinuxNS]

Hello,

I have installed Lisa on my laptop to gain some more experience with Linux (so I'm fairly new). The only problem I can't seem to overcome is that the headphone jack won't work. The laptop speakers work fine. In fact the onboard speakers correctly mute when headphones are plugged in, but there is simply no sound in the headphones.

This seems to be a fairly common problem but this seems to have a bit of twist that I haven't seen too many forum posts addressing... The alsamixer doesn't show a channel for the headphone jack. Under the Output tab of Sound Settings the only device listed is "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" and under the "Connector" field it just has "Analog Speaker" with no other option. I've gone around in circles with this one and even added "options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad" to alsa-base.conf just to be safe, but no luck. I know the headphones are good and I know the stereo jack is good as it works fine with WinXP (not dual boot, XP is on a separate HDD).

Here are the particulars:

Lenovo Thinkpad R61
AlsaMixer v1.0.24.2
Card: HDA Intel
Chip: Conexant CX20549 (Venice)

Any ideas of where to go next with troubleshooting this?

Tks.

[z06gal]

I have the same issue but the headphones work for me when I open volume control settings > output > change it back to speakers. The only issue is every time you plug your headphones in, you'll have to do this. The other option is what I chose to do because I hate pulseaudio:


http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2010/11/how- ... buntu.html


You will lose your volume applet but I use my gnome alsamixer for volume settings or you can add a volume control to your dock [cairo dock in my case]

[mankapo]

Hello LinuxNS,

I've got an identical setup here and also went more than one cyle,
-purging pulseaudio
-adding several options to alsa-base.conf
...
Here the solution was adding "options snd-hda-intel model=generic" to alsa-base.conf and reinstalling pulseaudio.
If you haven't purged pulseaudio until now, I guess adding the specified line will do it

Found this on:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/876020

[LinuxNS]

z06gal/makapo - Thanks very much for the help. Adding "options snd-hda-intel model=generic" did the trick.