Sorry, I spoke too soon. It actually works flawlessly. Turns out I had the model=mbp3 string that used to be recomended in my alsa-base.conf. Removing that made the patch work.
-- Headphone jack sense doesn't work on MacBook Pro 15" unibody (5,1 late 2008) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437150 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Mactel Support: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “linux-backports-modules-2.6.31” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I have managed how to manually mute internal speaker without muting headphones: I dropped down to 0 the volume of Front/Surround/LFE (not muted them, otherwise also headphones will mute) and after un-mute the HP channel and rise volume. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: scorp 1824 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: scorp 1824 F...m pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xdf480000 irq 21' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC889A' Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,106b4000,00100103' Controls : 36 Simple ctrls : 20 Date: Sat Sep 26 13:32:22 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu4 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic SourcePackage: alsa-driver Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : mactel-support@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
