[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#600294: Need to turn off 'Headphone Jack Sense' and 'Line Jack Sense'

[Andrew Pimlott]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.23-2
Severity: wishlist

Five years on, bug 297343 (archived, so I couldn't reply to it) takes me
out for a few frustrating hours.  I was playing with mixer levels to get
my mic capture working and turned on "Headphone Jack Sense", no doubt
thinking that turning things on could hardly hurt.  Googling did not get
me the solution; I just checked the ALSA faq and it's there, but this
did not come up in my searches.

I looked at the Debian fix, and it seems that I could have run
"/etc/init.d/alsa reset" to get my sound working again.  That's great,
thought it's a little obscure and I never found it documented.  What I
tried was "alsactl init", but this didn't do it.  It would be have been
better for me if this fix could have been made in alsactl init.  Any
chance for some of the Debian sanity checks to be ported to alsactl
init?  Should I file an upstream bug about this?

Andrew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.23-2       shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncursesw5              5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.23+dfsg-1  base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-25         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.12-1         tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                      161-1          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  whiptail                  0.52.11-1      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.23+dfsg-1 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.7-5     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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