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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Control: tags -1 unreproducible

* Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> [2016-03-24 03:11 -0700]:

> 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 :-(

Running linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 and a
Realtek ALC892 the Auto-Mute switch is available, though.

What we can do is to redirect this bug to your kernel image as the
drivers are no more part of alsa packages and maintained by the
kernel team?

Elimar
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