[alsa-devel] No jack sense on Intel 82801I / IDT 92HD71B7X in a HP dv4

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:05:11 -0300,
Gustavo Vieira wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got sound problems in my HP Pavilion dv4-1125br. The sound card is
> a Intel 82801I with the IDT 92HD71B7X codec. Sound works ok, including
> the internal mic and external mic jack, but I still have a couple of
> problems.
> 
> The main problem is that I don't have jack sense in the headphone jack.
> Headphones do not work and I'm unable even to make them work manually
> through the mixer. This machine got two headphone jacks in front and
> none of them works. I've tested it since alsa-driver 1.0.17  and it has
> never worked.
> 
> The other problem is that the speaker volume is low. Even if I increase
> all available mixer controls (PCM and Master), the volume is still tiny.
> This is a regression. In alsa-driver 1.0.17 (Fedora 10, kernel
> 2.6.27.21) the volume is ok, the problem appeared sometime after that
> and alsa-driver 1.0.18a (Fedora 11 beta, kernel 2.6.29.1). One thing I
> noticed between these versions is the disappearance of the Front mixer
> control present in 1.0.17. Maybe that is the cause of the problem.

Could you try the very latest alsa-driver snapshot below?
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz


Takashi