Idea #5537: Fix Intel HD audio driver (Intel, Nvidia, Conexant) to allow headphone usage

This entry was marked as not being an idea the 12 August 08. To report a bug, please use the Ubuntu bug tracker.

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Written by kraemer the 24 Mar 08 at 01:01. Category: Hardware support.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea

Description

The Intel HD audio driver in the kernel allows for the support of various onboard HD audio devices. Intel, Nvidia, and Conexant are a few of the devices that this driver enables on various notebooks, however there is poor headphone support.

Sounds play through both the headphones and speakers on Nvidia HD audio devices. This is rather annoying and I'd love to see it fixed!

People have claimed some success fixing this issue by applying various patches or upgrading to hardy. A hardy upgrade did not solve this issue for me however. I'd love to see it "just work"

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Attachments

Bug #114053 : Realtek ALC883 audio chipset (ATI/Intel HD audio)

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Comments

Auzy wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 01:03

Any extra hardware support is good.. +1

Psycho_zs wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 06:25

And help alsa developers to fix tremendous DC offset on those cards. No offset is seen under you-know-what. But under Linux it is very strong.

hagnf wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 11:04

This seems to be a bug, check in at https://bugs.launchpad.net/

juno eclipse wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 15:19

My hda intel cards at last works well with the last hardy beta ;)
You can choose to mute front internal speaker, headphones or both ;)

3dOptics wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 02:16

I have solved this problem by double clicking on the volume icon in the system tray and then "Edit", "Preferences", Checking the "off-hook" selection, and then close. Clicking on the "Switches" tab and checking "off-hook".

I think it would be beneficial if someone whos computer is a laptop, the "off-hook" be defaulted to on.

fluo wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 14:01

you need alsa 1.0.15 for intel hda's. Wait for hardy or compile the source, luke.

frankone wrote on the 13 Jul 08 at 21:33

OK I give up. Brand new to Linux/Ubuntu. Have run Windows since 1.0 and "had" decided to see what all this Ubuntu was about. Got the book; got the live CD. Install was the easiest I have EVER see. All the things are there as basic and work very well......except audio.

I have searched the internet for answers to no avail. I have check and rechecked and unchecked all the boxes in every audio app. I can find to no avail!

I have a multiboot install with XP and Ubuntu. (Even that went very well and easy....can boot either way without problem) In XP, audio works great. In Ubuntu, no audio of any kind! Not even beeps for any action on the system of any type! Absoulty no audio from internal or external speakers. I have a Toshiba Sat. laptop with a Conexant HD Audio set up in Windows.

I have no use for an operating system that can't run audio. The internet is audio and visual and without one or the other or god forbid both, it is useless.

I am running the latest....as far as I can tell....8.04 Hardy Heron in 32 bit mode.

Help??

droetker wrote on the 12 Aug 08 at 15:18

Sorry to interrupt, but Brainstorm is an idea pool; Helping with problems of this kind should take place at the Ubuntu forums - these are specialized for this.
It's also no place for reporting bugs or (e.g. My audio doesn't work with my laptop) - they won't be fixed here. If you want to have it fixed, report a proper bug report at Launchpad.net.
Thanks anyway, and if you have another idea, please post it here.

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