Dear Matthew,

Am Montag, den 12.07.2010, 09:22 -0400 schrieb Matthew Hudson:

I posted similar messages to the alsa-user mail list and to ubuntu forums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1528442 ), but haven't been able to get help. Could any of you help with this?

I do *not* know a lot either. :(

So, I've got a great Acer Aspire 7736. Seems to have a RealTek ALC888 card & Intel HDA.

I've upgraded Alsa. I've used the Drivers at the RealTek site. I've checked alsamixer over and over and over.

Yet, currently I cannot get sound through the headphone jack.

Originally, I had problems w/ headphone/speakers playing simlutaneously. Somewhere in my adventures I fixed that, but then only one app would use sound during a login (UGH). So, I kept poking...as all good linux users do...now I'm afraid I've totally wonked it.

I'll put all pertinent alsa-info up here for anyone who will help!!

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=58850a92a9ea0edbf28a8d014a875cdbd81b621d

I guess I'm bright enough to really mess it up, but dumb enough not to have a clue how to fix it. It has NEVER been able to recognize a headphone plugged in the jack automatically. I hope someone knows...

I do not thin the RealTek drivers are recommended. Can you try some Live CD of some distribution and test different module parameters as described in [1]?

Thanks,

Paul

[1] http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug_Intel_HDA