no sound from headphone jack?

[inhaLekush]

hello, first i want to thank mageia for a very good distro... i have put it on 5 computers so far and every thing works stable out the box ..i put it on my friends dell inspiron 1525 last night and every thing works even the sound but when you plug in headphones no sound comes out the headphones? any ideas? i appreciate the help alot in advance..thanks

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lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
02:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
02:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
02:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01

~edited by isadora, to doktor5000
thanks inhaLekush

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of

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head -n 1 /proc/asound/card*/codec*

and please post this in a Code-block, that's what the Code-Button above the forum editor is for.

[inhaLekush]

thank you for the reply and sorry about the code block..here's the output..

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==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: Conexant ID 2c06

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 <==
Codec: Silicon Image SiI1392 HDMI

==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#2 <==
Codec: SigmaTel STAC9228


[doktor5000]

Please also show the output of

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pactl list cards

[inhaLekush]

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pactl list cards
Module #0
        Name: module-device-restore
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Automatically restore the volume/mute state of devices"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #1
        Name: module-stream-restore
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Automatically restore the volume/mute/device state of streams"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #2
        Name: module-card-restore
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Automatically restore profile of cards"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #3
        Name: module-augment-properties
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Augment the property sets of streams with additional static information"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #4
        Name: module-alsa-card
        Argument: device_id="0" name="pci-0000_00_1b.0" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1"
        Usage counter: 0
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "ALSA Card"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #5
        Name: module-udev-detect
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Detect available audio hardware and load matching drivers"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #6
        Name: module-esound-protocol-unix
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "ESOUND protocol (UNIX sockets)"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #7
        Name: module-native-protocol-unix
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Native protocol (UNIX sockets)"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #8
        Name: module-gconf
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "GConf Adapter"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #9
        Name: module-default-device-restore
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Automatically restore the default sink and source"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #10
        Name: module-rescue-streams
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "When a sink/source is removed, try to move their streams to the default sink/source"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #11
        Name: module-always-sink
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Colin Guthrie"
                module.description = "Always keeps at least one sink loaded even if it's a null one"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #12
        Name: module-intended-roles
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Automatically set device of streams based of intended roles of devices"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #13
        Name: module-suspend-on-idle
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "When a sink/source is idle for too long, suspend it"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #14
        Name: module-console-kit
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Create a client for each ConsoleKit session of this user"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #15
        Name: module-position-event-sounds
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Position event sounds between L and R depending on the position on screen of the widget triggering them."
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #16
        Name: module-cork-music-on-phone
        Argument:
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "Mute or cork music while a phone stream exists"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #17
        Name: module-x11-publish
        Argument: display=:0
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "X11 credential publisher"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #18
        Name: module-device-manager
        Argument: do_routing=1
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Colin Guthrie"
                module.description = "Keep track of devices (and their descriptions) both past and present and prioritise by role"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Module #19
        Name: module-x11-xsmp
        Argument: display=:0 session_manager=local/localhost:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/1919,unix/localhost:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1919
        Usage counter: n/a
        Properties:
                module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
                module.description = "X11 session management"
                module.version = "0.9.22-5.mga1"

Sink #0
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
        Description: Internal Audio Analog Stereo
        Driver: module-alsa-card.c
        Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-right
        Owner Module: 4
        Mute: no
        Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%
                0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume: 100%
                     0.00 dB
        Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
        Properties:
                alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
                device.api = "alsa"
                device.class = "sound"
                alsa.class = "generic"
                alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
                alsa.name = "STAC92xx Analog"
                alsa.id = "STAC92xx Analog"
                alsa.subdevice = "0"
                alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
                alsa.device = "0"
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 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 = "284b"
                device.product.name = "82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "front:0"
                device.buffering.buffer_size = "352768"
                device.buffering.fragment_size = "176384"
                device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
                device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
                device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
                device.description = "Internal Audio Analog Stereo"
                alsa.mixer_name = "SigmaTel STAC9228"
                alsa.components = "HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:10951392,10280242,00100000 HDA:83847616,10280242,00100201"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        Ports:
                analog-output: Analog Output (priority. 9900)
                analog-output-headphones: Analog Headphones (priority. 9000)
        Active Port: analog-output

Source #0
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
        Description: Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo
        Driver: module-alsa-card.c
        Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-right
        Owner Module: 4
        Mute: no
        Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%
                0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume: 100%
                     0.00 dB
        Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
        Properties:
                device.description = "Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo"
                device.class = "monitor"
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 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 = "284b"
                device.product.name = "82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "0"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"

Source #1
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
        Description: Internal Audio Analog Stereo
        Driver: module-alsa-card.c
        Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-right
        Owner Module: 4
        Mute: no
        Volume: 0:  61% 1:  61%
                0: -12.87 dB 1: -12.87 dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume:  45%
                     -21.00 dB
        Monitor of Sink: n/a
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
        Properties:
                alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
                device.api = "alsa"
                device.class = "sound"
                alsa.class = "generic"
                alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
                alsa.name = "STAC92xx Analog"
                alsa.id = "STAC92xx Analog"
                alsa.subdevice = "0"
                alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
                alsa.device = "0"
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 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 = "284b"
                device.product.name = "82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "front:0"
                device.buffering.buffer_size = "352768"
                device.buffering.fragment_size = "176384"
                device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
                device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
                device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
                device.description = "Internal Audio Analog Stereo"
                alsa.mixer_name = "SigmaTel STAC9228"
                alsa.components = "HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:10951392,10280242,00100000 HDA:83847616,10280242,00100201"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        Ports:
                input-microphone-1: Microphone 1 (priority. 20)
                input-microphone-2: Microphone 2 (priority. 19)
                input-microphone-3: Microphone 3 (priority. 19)
        Active Port: input-microphone-1

Client #0
        Driver: module-console-kit.c
        Owner Module: 14
        Properties:
                application.name = "ConsoleKit Session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1"
                console-kit.session = "/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1"

Client #4
        Driver: protocol-native.c
        Owner Module: 7
        Properties:
                application.name = "KMix KDE 4"
                native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
                native-protocol.version = "16"
                application.process.id = "1637"
                application.process.user = "jen"
                application.process.host = "localhost"
                application.process.binary = "kdeinit4"
                application.language = "en_US.UTF-8"
                window.x11.display = ":0"
                application.process.machine_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b"
                application.process.session_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b-1323387634.961286-1349039355"

Client #6
        Driver: module-x11-xsmp.c
        Owner Module: 19
        Properties:
                application.name = "XSMP Session on KDE as 1014cd7d2d4000132338765500000019190050"
                xsmp.vendor = "KDE"
                xsmp.client.id = "1014cd7d2d4000132338765500000019190050"

Client #8
        Driver: protocol-native.c
        Owner Module: 7
        Properties:
                application.name = "KMix KDE 4"
                native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
                native-protocol.version = "16"
                application.process.id = "3023"
                application.process.user = "jen"
                application.process.host = "localhost"
                application.process.binary = "kdeinit4"
                application.language = "en_US.UTF-8"
                window.x11.display = ":0"
                application.process.machine_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b"
                application.process.session_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b-1323387634.961286-1349039355"

Client #9
        Driver: protocol-native.c
        Owner Module: 7
        Properties:
                application.name = "libcanberra"
                native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
                native-protocol.version = "16"
                application.version = "0.27"
                application.id = "org.freedesktop.libcanberra"
                application.process.id = "2037"
                application.process.user = "jen"
                application.process.host = "localhost"
                application.process.binary = "knotify4"
                application.language = "en_US.UTF-8"
                window.x11.display = ":0"
                application.process.machine_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b"
                application.process.session_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b-1323387634.961286-1349039355"

Client #10
        Driver: protocol-native.c
        Owner Module: 7
        Properties:
                application.name = "pactl"
                native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
                native-protocol.version = "16"
                application.process.id = "4755"
                application.process.user = "root"
                application.process.host = "localhost"
                application.process.binary = "pactl"
                application.language = "en_US.UTF-8"
                window.x11.display = ":0"
                application.process.machine_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b"
                application.process.session_id = "67cd75b5bedb8e55f90c1c6a0000006b-1323387634.961286-1349039355"

Card #0
        Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0
        Driver: module-alsa-card.c
        Owner Module: 4
        Properties:
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 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 = "284b"
                device.product.name = "82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "0"
                device.description = "Internal Audio"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        Profiles:
                output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 6000)
                output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 6060)
                output:analog-surround-40: Analog Surround 4.0 Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 700)
                output:analog-surround-40+input:analog-stereo: Analog Surround 4.0 Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 760)
                output:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958) (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 5500)
                output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 5560)
                output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 5400)
                output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 5460)
                input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (sinks: 0, sources: 1, priority. 60)
                off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority. 0)
        Active Profile: output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo


[inhaLekush]

still no feedback for this?

[colin]

Hi,

This is likely just that need to manually choose the "Headphones" port in pavucontrol (or gnome-volume-control or even in KDE's systemsettings->Multimedia->Phonon->Audio Hardware Setup) when you plug in the headphones.

Yes, in case you are wondering, this does suck. It's work in progress to make it do that automatically.

Let me give you some background: Some h/w does this automatically and internally - that is there is only one volume knob to slide to adjust the volume. When you plugin some headphones it is a pure hardware thing that flips over from outputting via speakers to output via the cable you just plugged in (you can get jack sockets from electronics stores that have this changeover built in).

However, some other hardware works differently. It has different volume knobs for Speakers vs. Headphones. This means you can independently control the volume of your speakers and your headphones which is very nice as you tend (generally speaking) to want things quieter on headphones than you do on speakers. Now the problem comes in when using this newer hardware in that it is up to the operating system to use the correct volume control path at the right times. We are told (via the kernel's input API) that a jack insertion has happened and then we have to flip things over to work like the h/w-controlled version (i.e. mute the speakers volume slider knob and unmute the headphones one) to get the same effect.

This is where the problem comes in. The kernel's input API was very patchey. It was very hard to link up the input device with the actual sound jack (different drivers did it differently and used text identifiers that had to be mapped and it was all really, really messy). Thankfully, while in Prague a few weeks ago for the kernel summit and linuxcon Europe, all us audio folks sad down and hashed out what was needed to solve this horrible situation. The bad news is that this requires changes across the stack (kernel, alsa-lib and pulseaudio) but the good news is this work is under way. David Henningsson from Canonical has done a lot of the work at the PulseAudio side and Takashi Iwai is doing the necessary stuff at the ALSA side. With any luck it;ll all be in place fro MGA2, but until then we'll have to keep changing ports manually.

FWIW, this is the bug in question: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225 (although this one: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212 is likely a duplicate too).

All the best.

[inhaLekush]

thank you so much colin, for taking your time to feed me this info..it helped a lot.

[grutz]

I realize this might be a dead thread, but I had the same problem with the headphone jack on my Macbook and fixed it this way (FYI, I use Gnome).
1. I went to download gnome-alsamixer (it is different than the pulseaudio). I ended up downloading the rpm for Mandriva 2011. If this is in the Mageia repos, I couldn't find it.
2. After installing it, go to applications-->Sound and Video-->GNOME ALSAmixer
3. You'll see that the 2nd speaker is turned all the way down. Turn it up and the headphones should be working.

[doktor5000]

Well, the solution Colin offered doesn't even require installation of any foreign packages

[grutz]

Well, the solution Colin offered doesn't even require installation of any foreign packages

Yea, I know the way I did it wasn't the best option, but Colin's way didn't work for me. I just felt like chiming in on this because I was searching for an answer to this problem for a quite a while. So if it helps the community and makes Mageia a better distro for people, all the better.

[zugunder]

hello, first i want to thank mageia for a very good distro... i have put it on 5 computers so far and every thing works stable out the box ..i put it on my friends dell inspiron 1525 last night and every thing works even the sound but when you plug in headphones no sound comes out the headphones? any ideas? i appreciate the help alot in advance..thanks

Sorry for a stupid question - do you mean that when you plug external speakers you have sound and when you plug headphones into the same jack - you don't?
Have you checked the alsamixer settings (not from KMix GUI, but from the console)?