[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#819159: alsa-utils: No automute control in mixer, when there damn well should be

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.25-4
Severity: normal

I cannot get automute (that is, mute speakers when I plug in front
headphone) to work at my current configuration.  The option simply
doesn't appear in the mixer (alsamixer or any other, such as qasmixer).

The hardware is: HDA Intel with Realtek ALC889 codec.  Onboard with
GA-880GM Gigabyte mobo.

Kernel: Same problem with debian 3.2 (official wheezy) or 3.16 (from
backports).

But now the most important bit.  How do I know this _should_ work at
all?  Because it does - with upstream kernels!  With a kernel.org kernel
going back at least to 3.10, this control appears in mixers, and when
turned on it works as a charm.  But I can't use upstream kernels for
other reasons :-(


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.9
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog          1.1-20120215-2
ii  kmod            9-3
ii  libasound2      1.0.25-4
ii  libc6           2.13-38+deb7u10
ii  libncursesw5    5.9-10
ii  libsamplerate0  0.1.8-5
ii  libtinfo5       5.9-10
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian8+deb7u1

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
pn  alsa-base  <none>
ii  pciutils   1:3.1.9-6

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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