[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#600294: Bug#600294: Need to turn off 'Headphone Jack Sense' and 'Line Jack Sense'

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Andrew Pimlott [101015 08:46 -0700]:
> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.23-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Five years on, bug 297343 (archived, so I couldn't reply to it) takes me
> out for a few frustrating hours.  I was playing with mixer levels to get
> my mic capture working and turned on "Headphone Jack Sense", no doubt
> thinking that turning things on could hardly hurt.  Googling did not get
> me the solution; I just checked the ALSA faq and it's there, but this
> did not come up in my searches.

???

> I looked at the Debian fix, 

Which Debian fix?

> and it seems that I could have run
> "/etc/init.d/alsa reset" to get my sound working again. 

reset wqas never an option of the alsa script.  Read
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/changelog.Debian.gz and
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/NEWS.Debian.gz. The "init script" resides
in /usr/sbin/alsa since 1.0.15-1

> That's great,
> thought it's a little obscure and I never found it documented.

What did you never found?

> What I
> tried was "alsactl init", but this didn't do it.  It would be have been
> better for me if this fix could have been made in alsactl init.  Any
> chance for some of the Debian sanity checks to be ported to alsactl
> init?  Should I file an upstream bug about this?


Sorry, but what or where is the bug? What do you want? Which "Debian
sanity checks" do you mean?

Please point out your bug, though.

Elimar


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