Sound Headphone & Speakers @ Same Time

It happens in Ubuntu and it happens in Suse...,,,I guess when it's free we are all meant to be programmers. Well this will be my last try on another distro...after this it's back to windows for another year or until this d*** note book plague with Linux is fixed!!!

PROBLEM...as usual with linux and notebooks.....Sound comes out headphones and notebook speakers at the same time!

Note Book...MSI EX600
Suse 10.3
Kmix 2.6.1 Using KDE 3.5.7 release 72.9..................muting front speakers turns off both headphone & speakers...Muting headphones does the same thing...This problem has been around for two bloody years now and no were do I see any SOLVED threads.......

Please Help & go easy on the jargon please.......
I only know very little and that was in Ubuntu.......at least the battery indicator works in this distro...thumbs up on that!

PLEASE HELP I want Linux...any linux, but I need to use headphones without the front speakers going as well...PLEASE

Try updating alsa first:

http://en.opensuse.org/Alsa-update

Usually, it is just a matter of adding options to the kernel sound module. You will get more help if you can supply more hardware details. Two helpful commands to start with:

hwinfo --sound
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

First, let me say cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
uname -a
cat /proc/asound/cards
rpm -qa | grep alsa

Also advise as to which openSUSE version.

Armed with that information, we can likely give you a good recommendation that will fix this problem.

Speaking of Ubuntu and Windows, I have two good friends who use Ubuntu and think its great. Its likely easy to get this working under Ubuntu. And my wife and 99.9% of my friends use WinXP, and they all think its great. So IMHO your options are not too bad. Things could be worse.

wow you guys are quick..............will make a cuppa and try my best to follow your instructions...Cheers

Hey Dean
hwinfo --soundHOST0013e8954de1:~ # hwinfo --sound
14: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.301]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_284b
Unique ID: u1Nb.Tpl9SMkJSdD
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
Hardware Class: sound
Model: "Micro-Star International 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
Device: pci 0x284b "82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd."
SubDevice: pci 0x3fe9
Revision: 0x03
Driver: "HDA Intel"
Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
Memory Range: 0xf9ff8000-0xf9ffbfff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 20 (10425 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d0000284Bsv00001462sd00003FE9bc04sc0 3i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
HOST0013e8954de1:~ #


AND......:
options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0
# u1Nb.Tpl9SMkJSdD:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
HOST0013e8954de1:~ #

hey Oldcpuhttp://pastebin.ca/1025776
thats the first one

hey Oldcpuhttp://pastebin.ca/1025776
thats the first one
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second scripthttp://nopaste.com/p/aQVkH4iXn

second part oldcpu

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0
# u1Nb.Tpl9SMkJSdD:82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

Linux HOST0013e8954de1 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xf9ff8000 irq 20

alsa-oss-1.0.14-23
alsa-utils-1.0.14-27
alsa-1.0.14-31.2
alsa-plugins-1.0.14-41





Hey Dean this is what I get when I try to update?http://en.opensuse.org/Alsa-update
-bash:http://en.opensuse.org/Alsa-update: No such file or directory



LOL stupid me it was a link...soz not a command......argh

have done step one in trouble shooter and ran test after updating alsa and still same problems looking into step 2 now

so i ran the alsa config and I got sound...its just that the d*** sound wont register the headphones seperately from the speakers and still plays both togeather...arrgghhhh
oh well

HERE ARE THE NEW DETAILS SINCE UPDATING!!!!!

dave@Dave:~> cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC).

dave@Dave:~> cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel

dave@Dave:~> cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xf9ff8000 irq 20

NEW Script Info
1st onehttp://pastebin.ca/1025809
2nd onehttp://nopaste.com/p/aK9BUT2acb