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Headphones don't work in Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell Studio 1747

Asked by Insan al-Kitab

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to read and assist me.
I have Ubuntu 11.10 on my Dell Studio 1747 (it is an upgrade from 11.04). The problem is that my headphones don't work in Ubuntu. When I plug in the headphones, the speakers stop playing, but the headphones don't do anything. My guess would be, there is either a missing driver, or a wrong configuration of the jacks. While in 11.04 I tried to fix this with gnome Alsa mixer, but it didn't work.
Please feel free to ask even more details that you might consider useful. Thank you for your help.

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Insan al-Kitab (insanalkitab) said : 		#1

Don't worry about my question - I solved it with the solution provided here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/168949
I just added at the end of the alsa-base.conf these lines:

# Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard
options snd-pcsp index=-2
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-amic

(for other ocasional readers of this post - I dared to use these lines because the model that the advise was given to was very similar to mine: He had a Dell studio 1749 and I had a Dell studio 1747. I'm a newby in Linux, but still, if you have a laptop other then these models, I don't recommend you to use this solution).

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Please read this as well:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1459220&page=2

I think you need to replace

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-amic

with

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic

in the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file

or else the microphone will stop working....

If dell-m6-dmic does not work better concerning the microphone, please revert back to dell-m6-amic

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Insan al-Kitab (insanalkitab) said : 		#3

Thank you Mark, you were right - I didn't even realize that my mic stopped working. Thank you for your comment.

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fgr (f-gritsch) said : 		#4

is there coming a fix for this problem, cause I suffer the same problem after a clean install .... (with 11.04 sound output worked well!)

Or do I and everybody else have to search the web for this problem and edit the alsa config file??

thanks for your help.