Headphones not recognized!

NismoTie · #1 (**permalink**) 03-Jul-2009, 04:42

Currently running SUSE 11.1 with the latest gnome.

Tried to raise this issue in every forum possible as I had the same problem whilst running ubuntu 8.04 - 9.04. When I'm say watching a youtube video, and the sound is playing out of my speakers, I stick my headphones into the jack and it still plays from the speakers. I have tested out all channels. Also when I run ALSA mixer I only have Master and PCM channels. Any solutions would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Tie.

#2 (**permalink**) 03-Jul-2009, 07:24

a "natural_pilot" answered your question in another forum, did you
read it?

there is nothing more for you..

--
brassy

oldcpu · #3 (**permalink**) 04-Jul-2009, 10:55

Sometimes the headphones do not work because the autoprobe of your sound card may not have been correctly identified at boot during the loading of the alsa kernel module. You could consider:

carefully check your mixer, and to get better help post here the settings you have applied to your mixer and/or
possibly force a model configuration upon boot where the mute will work, and / or
possibly update to the latest alsa version (as openSUSE-11.1 does NOT have the latest alsa version Alsa-update - openSUSE and/or
if your hardware of your PC is really new, then a bug report may be necessary to have the alsa kernel model updated to appropriately handle your PCs hardware

There are a lot of hints and links in the audio troubleshooting guide and you could start working thru that. If that does not help, post and after I get back from vacation (in a week or so) I can try guide you thru this in more detail.

Audio troubleshooting guide link: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

xizzling · #4 (**permalink**) 27-Jul-2009, 02:59

I have a very similar problem after a fresh install of osuse 11.0.
My toshiba satellite, sound is fine, but headphones dont seem to work at all.

Upon going for help trying to update alsa drivers, the following rpm install cmd is not very simple:

zypper ar Index of /repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_11.0

i guess it requires the particular rpm , and not the path only???

Any clue?

oldcpu · #5 (**permalink**) 27-Jul-2009, 04:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by xizzling

Upon going for help trying to update alsa drivers, the following rpm install cmd is not very simple:

Code:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_11.0/

I think you copied that wrong. I just double checked Alsa-update - openSUSE and it appears correct.

You should have copied:

Code:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_11.0/ multimedia

ie that assigns the repository URL to the "label" multimedia, which simplifies removing the repository afterward, where afterward one will type:

Code:

zypper rr multimedia

I hope that explanation helps.

xizzling · #6 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2009, 05:06

thanks indeed for the commands.

But unfortunately, my headphones jacks still dont seem to work after these 6 commands and bootup?

Have you people been able to make it work for your laptops jacks?

oldcpu · #7 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2009, 06:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by xizzling

thanks indeed for the commands.

But unfortunately, my headphones jacks still dont seem to work after these 6 commands and bootup?

Have you people been able to make it work for your laptops jacks?

My laptop works fine

Please, with your PC connected to the internet, can you copy and paste into a konsole or terminal, and then run the following:

Code:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh

it will give you a URL when it is finished. Please post the URL here. Just the URL.

Please also post the output of running in a konsole:

Code:

rpm -qa | grep alsa
rpm -qa | grep pulse
rpm -q libasound2
uname -a
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

xizzling · #8 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2009, 06:36

OK, here is the URL and the related info from the commands:

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=38...0014abed5baf8f
-----------------------------------------------------------
>
alsa-oss-1.0.15-48.1
alsa-utils-1.0.16-35.1
alsa-docs-1.0.20-36.1
alsa-driver-kmp-pae-1.0.20.20090728_2.6.25.20_0.4-2.1
alsa-1.0.20-36.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.16-57.1

>
libasound2-1.0.20-36.1

>
Linux linux-wiag 2.6.25.20-0.4-pae #1 SMP 2009-06-01 09:57:12 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

>
# u1Nb.KMMdAxZ4TKA:82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

oldcpu · #9 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2009, 06:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by xizzling

>
# u1Nb.KMMdAxZ4TKA:82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

Thanks. I'm looking at it.

Please, can you run
cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
again? And check the output against what you posted? What you posted looks incomplete.

xizzling · #10 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2009, 06:59

Well this is the complete output:

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel
# u1Nb.KMMdAxZ4TKA:82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

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