[alsa-devel] Regression on alsa-driver-1.0.18a on HDA for Dell Inspiron 1521

[Manuel Naranjo]

>
> Hello guys,
>
> I just upgraded my alsa from 1.0.16 to 1.0.18a (actually I tried
> 1.0.18 for some days, and got lots of kernel crashes, which apparently
> 1.0.18a fixes). Thing is that when I try to use my headphones with
> 1.0.18a they don't work.
>
> I'm attaching alsa-info.sh outputs for both 1.0.16 and 1.0.18a too see
> if this helps.
>
> Headphones detection works pretty well, when ever I plug the jack
> internal speakers stop working but nothing is coming from the jack. I
> can hear an static sounds, so it seems like the headphones are getting
> the bias current, but not the signal itself.
>
> Please let me know how can I help you to debug this problem.
>
> Regards,
> Manuel
>   

Ohh btw, 1.0.18a connects the hardwar beeper, which can only be disabled 
at compile time, just as a suggestion, isn't there any way to create a 
way to mute this on runtime? For advanced users like us this is no 
trouble, but for newbies this is an issue, and might scare them, the 
beep on a dell laptop is quite annoying (you can't image how annoying 
it's comming out of the headphones)