Brendon Higgins wrote: > Seasonal greetings, Debian users! > > I was wondering if anyone has pointers for an audio configuration issue. I > have > Debian Testing running on a Dell laptop (Latitude E6320, audio chipset > detected as HDA Intel PCH, 92HD90BXX). The speaker output works fine. When I > plug in headphones, the system seems to detect that okay: it mutes the > speakers ("Speaker+LO" channel in alsamixer) and unmutes the headphones > ("Headphone" channel). > > The problem is that no sound comes out of my headphones. > > I've noticed that I have to also unmute and restore volume of the Speaker+LO > channel to hear anything in the headphones (meanwhile, with headphones > connected, the laptop speakers are silent as you would expect). The Headphone > volume setting doesn't seem to matter at all, although muting that does also > cause the headphones to mute. > > It all used to work fine, but probably a couple of years ago it started > having > this behaviour. I suspect it was a kernel update, or maybe ALSA library - I > can't be certain - and put it off hoping the bug might just get fixed... > > Any suggestions? I looked at the hdajackretask app, but no idea where I > would > even start there.
Do you have pulseaudio running on your system? It is a layer above ALSA, and could be related to your issue. > Thanks in advance, > Brendon > > > -- Joel Roth