[alsa-devel] HD-audio regression after commit 34588709af61be1550b4e2bcee5c85d0ac4f34d4

[Miro Hodak]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > I have been playing with Independent HP feature and while I can get it
> to work in aplay and mplayer, it does not seem to work on vlc and Skype.
> Both applications seem to have options for sending sound to HPs ("AD1989B
> Analog Front Speakers" or "AD1989B Analog (hw: 0,2)" - Skype only), but
> none of those options sends sound to the HPs. Any thoughts on this?
>
> Because the driver should not allow user to change the independent
> headphone switch when there is any playing stream
>
The Independent HP switch is on before starting these apps (vlc and Skype).

It would be cool if I could make a skype call via front headset
independently of speakers connected at the back, but I cannot get it to
work.