Getting the same effect on 12.04 , started happening after some update in 2013 january
When i plug in headphones or pull them out then the machine goes on mute and i have to restore the sound from alsamixer $ dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.25-1ubuntu5 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA $ dpkg -l | grep pulse ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.31-1ubuntu1 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii libcanberra-pulse 0.28-3ubuntu3 PulseAudio backend for libcanberra ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support) ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support) ii libpulse0 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio client libraries ii libpulse0:i386 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio client libraries ii libpulsedsp 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library ii libpulsedsp:i386 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library rc libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio 1.2.14-6.1ubuntu4 Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and PulseAudio options) ii pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-gconf 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 GConf module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-utils 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server ii vlc-plugin-pulse 2.0.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 PulseAudio plugin for VLC $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic HD-Audio Generic at 0xf0444000 irq 53 1 [Generic_1 ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic HD-Audio Generic at 0xf0440000 irq 16 it seems that card 0 is my ati hdmi and card 1 is the actual soundcard on the motherboard Laptop : HP Pavilion dv6 $ lspci -v | grep Audio -A2 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 358d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 53 -- 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 358d Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 --- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921397 Title: Speaker audio channel goes mute after plugging in the headphone Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Speaker audio channel goes mute after plugging in the headphone and unmute after the headphone is plugged out. By consequence there is no sound when trying to listen the sound by headphones. This is a pulseaudio problem and can be circumvent by just editing /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output-headphones.conf and commenting the line as here: [Jack_InputDevice] #code = Headphone This will avoid pulseaudio to change profiles when headphone is plugged in. Some people affected by this bug don't get the headphones muted, but only a very low volume, this workaround could help too. But to some computer models this workaround could let the sound play by headphones and speaker by the same time (most people don't desire that). On my computer model ( HP Pavilion DV-4 2080br ) the workaround works well and the sound goes only by the headphone, as expected. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic 3.0.0-15.26 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: henrique 16836 F.... pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xe8500000 irq 45' Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1X5' Components : 'HDA:111d7605,103c1409,00100402' Controls : 18 Simple ctrls : 10 Date: Wed Jan 25 02:58:14 2012 GvfsMonitorLog: Monitoring events. Press Ctrl+C to quit. HotplugNewDevices: HotplugNewMounts: InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-15-generic root=UUID=32414ec2-9ef6-46d9-a944-7715529ebc08 ro RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-15-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-15-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.60 SourcePackage: linux StagingDrivers: mei Symptom: storage UdevMonitorLog: monitor will print the received events for: UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing UdisksMonitorLog: Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel. UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (102 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 03/30/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde dmi.bios.version: F.0C dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: 1409 dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: 50.17 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsyde:bvrF.0C:bd03/30/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv4NotebookPC:pvr049C200000241220000030000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1409:rvr50.17:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC dmi.product.version: 049C200000241220000030000 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/921397/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp