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by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 09:57

Until recently my system was by default set up so that speakers would automute as soon as i plugged in my headphones. Some recent update seems to have changed this behaviour. Now when plugging in headphones i get sound on the headphones and the speakers simultaneously.

The standard response to this problem seems to be to set automute to "Enabled" in alsamixer. However alsamixer on Mageia doesn't seem to offer this option.

I also tried

Code: Select all: /usr/bin/amixer -c 0 sset "Auto-Mute Mode" Enabled

which returns

Code: Select all: amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0

Does anybody have other ideas or suggestions?

by **doktor5000** » Oct 4th, '14, 11:21

Can you please post the output of

Code: Select all: lspcidrake -v | grep -i audio grep -i codec /proc/asound/card*/codec* pactl list cards

Also check the previous thread about this:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1511
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1550

by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 12:18

Thanks for the reply. Here are the outputs

Code: Select all: lspcidrake -v | grep -i audio snd_hda_intel : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO_DEV] (vendor:8086 device:1e20 subv:1458 subd:a002) (rev: 04)

Code: Select all: grep -i codec /proc/asound/card*/codec* /proc/asound/card0/codec#2:Codec: Realtek ALC887-VD /proc/asound/card0/codec#3:Codec: Intel PantherPoint HDMI

Code: Select all: pactl list cards Card #0 Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 Driver: module-alsa-card.c Owner Module: 6 Properties: alsa.card = "0" alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH" alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7c10000 irq 46" alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0" sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0" device.bus = "pci" device.vendor.id = "8086" device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation" device.product.id = "1e20" device.product.name = "7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller" device.form_factor = "internal" device.string = "0" device.description = "Built-in Audio" module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci" Profiles: input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 0, sources: 1, priority: 60, available: yes) output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 6000, available: yes) output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 6060, available: yes) output:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5500, available: yes) output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 5560, available: yes) output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5400, available: yes) output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 5460, available: yes) output:hdmi-surround: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 300, available: yes) output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 360, available: yes) off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes) Active Profile: output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo Ports: analog-input-front-mic: Front Microphone (priority: 8500, latency offset: 0 usec, not available) Properties: device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone" Part of profile(s): input:analog-stereo, output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo analog-input-rear-mic: Rear Microphone (priority: 8200, latency offset: 0 usec, not available) Properties: device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone" Part of profile(s): input:analog-stereo, output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo analog-input-linein: Line In (priority: 8100, latency offset: 0 usec, not available) Part of profile(s): input:analog-stereo, output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo analog-output: Analog Output (priority: 9900, latency offset: 0 usec) Part of profile(s): output:analog-stereo, output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority: 9900, latency offset: 0 usec, available) Part of profile(s): output:analog-stereo, output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority: 9000, latency offset: 0 usec) Properties: device.icon_name = "audio-headphones" Part of profile(s): output:analog-stereo, output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF) (priority: 0, latency offset: 0 usec) Part of profile(s): output:iec958-stereo, output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (priority: 5900, latency offset: 0 usec, not available) Properties: device.icon_name = "video-display" Part of profile(s): output:hdmi-stereo, output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo, output:hdmi-surround, output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo

I had a look at the threads you linked to, but i'm not quite sure what actions to derive from them. Choosing the headphones port in the Audio Hardware Setup of the KDE system settings did not do the trick. Also as i wrote, very confusing that this worked until a couple of months ago (haven't used my headphones in a while) and now suddenly it doesn't anymore.

by **doktor5000** » Oct 4th, '14, 12:34

What kernel do you use currently? Please show output of

Code: Select all: uname -r

Do you still have any of the older 3.12.x kernels installed, then please test them compared to current 3.14.18.

Also please show the output of

Code: Select all: grep -R hda /etc/modprobe* pacmd list-sinks

by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 12:39

Code: Select all: uname -r 3.14.18-desktop-3.mga4

Actually my suspicion is that this stopped working due to the latest kernel update...

Code: Select all: grep -R hda /etc/modprobe*

produces no output..

Code: Select all: pacmd list-sinks 1 sink(s) available. * index: 0 name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo> driver: <module-alsa-card.c> flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY FLAT_VOLUME DYNAMIC_LATENCY state: RUNNING suspend cause: priority: 9959 volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB balance 0,00 base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB volume steps: 65537 muted: no current latency: 83,40 ms max request: 15 KiB max rewind: 344 KiB monitor source: 0 sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz channel map: front-left,front-right Stereo used by: 1 linked by: 1 configured latency: 90,00 ms; range is 0,50 .. 2000,00 ms card: 0 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0> module: 6 properties: alsa.resolution_bits = "16" device.api = "alsa" device.class = "sound" alsa.class = "generic" alsa.subclass = "generic-mix" alsa.name = "ALC887-VD Analog" alsa.id = "ALC887-VD Analog" alsa.subdevice = "0" alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" alsa.device = "0" alsa.card = "0" alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH" alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7c10000 irq 46" alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0" sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0" device.bus = "pci" device.vendor.id = "8086" device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation" device.product.id = "1e20" device.product.name = "7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller" device.form_factor = "internal" device.string = "front:0" device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800" device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400" device.access_mode = "mmap+timer" device.profile.name = "analog-stereo" device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo" device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" alsa.mixer_name = "Intel PantherPoint HDMI" alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0887,1458a002,00100302 HDA:80862806,80860101,00100000" module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci" ports: analog-output: Analog Output (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown) properties: analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes) properties: analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown) properties: device.icon_name = "audio-headphones" active port: <analog-output-headphones>

by **doktor5000** » Oct 4th, '14, 13:06

Dougal wrote: ports:
analog-output: Analog Output (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:

analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
properties:

analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
active port: <analog-output-headphones>
[/code]

And you say that currently you hear output to builtin speakers and via headphones?

Also, please mention which desktop environment you're using currently.

by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 13:17

No, i'm hearing the output of external speakers (not internal speakers) and headphones at the same time. The behaviour i used to experience was that by plugging in the headphones, the external speakers attached to the line out would mute.

I am using KDE.

by **doktor5000** » Oct 4th, '14, 13:25

Ahh, so you have separate jacks for headphones and line-out? Okay.

Can you please take a screenshot in systemsettings -> multimedia -> audio and video settings -> audi hardware setup (also accessible via rightclick on kmix -> audio setup) and then switch the card to your analog card.

by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 13:40

: snapshot3.png (89.13 KiB) Viewed 5532 times

The above option for sound card "built-in Audio" is tho only one available.

by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 14:13

And by the way, switching the connector between 'Headphones' and 'Line Out' (the only other option) doesn't change anything. Under both options both the external speakers and the headphones receive sounnbd...

by **doktor5000** » Oct 4th, '14, 14:38

BTW, for your initial command, can you post the output of

Code: Select all: amixer -c 0

by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 14:41

Code: Select all: amixer -c 0 Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Front',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0 Capabilities: volume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 3 Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB] Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Center',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'LFE',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Line Boost',0 Capabilities: volume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 3 Front Left: 3 [100%] [30.00dB] Front Right: 3 [100%] [30.00dB] Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'IEC958',16 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Beep',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 46 Front Left: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',1 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 46 Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.00dB] [off] Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch' Item0: '2ch' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Line' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Rear Mic' Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0 Capabilities: volume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 3 Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB] Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]

by **doktor5000** » Oct 4th, '14, 15:31

Hmmm, seems the mixer control "Auto-Mute Mode" has been removed.

For comparison, this is what it looks like here:

[doktor5000@Mageia4 ~]$ amixer -c 0 controls
numid=35,iface=CARD,name='Headphone Jack'
numid=33,iface=CARD,name='Internal Mic Phantom Jack'
numid=34,iface=CARD,name='Line Jack'
numid=32,iface=CARD,name='Mic Jack'
numid=39,iface=CARD,name='SPDIF Phantom Jack'
numid=38,iface=CARD,name='Speaker CLFE Phantom Jack'
numid=36,iface=CARD,name='Speaker Front Phantom Jack'
numid=37,iface=CARD,name='Speaker Surround Phantom Jack'
numid=31,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
numid=30,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Switch'
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume'
numid=45,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume'
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='Surround Playback Switch'
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Surround Playback Volume'
numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Center Playback Switch'
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='Center Playback Volume'
numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='LFE Playback Switch'
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='LFE Playback Volume'
numid=24,iface=MIXER,name='Line Boost Volume'
numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Switch'
numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Volume'
numid=23,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Boost Volume'
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch'
numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume'
numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Source'
numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'
numid=21,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'
numid=29,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Default PCM Playback Switch'
numid=25,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
numid=27,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Default'
numid=28,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Switch'
numid=19,iface=MIXER,name='Auto-Mute Mode'
numid=41,iface=MIXER,name='Beep Playback Switch'
numid=40,iface=MIXER,name='Beep Playback Volume'
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Channel Mode'
numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker CLFE Playback Switch'
numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Front Playback Switch'
numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Front Playback Volume'
numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Surround Playback Switch'
numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Speaker Surround Playback Volume'
numid=43,iface=PCM,name='Capture Channel Map'
numid=42,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map'
numid=44,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map',device=1

by **Dougal** » Oct 4th, '14, 15:44

Yes indeed, so it seems. The question remains, is there any relatively easy way of (re-)enabling automute, short of replacing the alsamixer version from the Mageia repository by one that i would have to compile myself....?

by **doktor5000** » Oct 4th, '14, 15:50

The problem is not alsamixer, the problem is that the driver/codec doesn't expose this mixer channel anymore.

You could check the following, though, at least to see if it works: http://digitizor.com/2009/10/22/fix-hea ... top-linux/

Other proposal would be http://voices.canonical.com/david.henni ... hone-jack/
You can get hda-jack-retask from http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/alsa-tools-gui

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