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Bug#638659: [linux-2.6] No sound



On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:54 +0100, Antonio Marcos López Alonso wrote:
> > It's not directly related to this message, but in 3.0 the Realtek HDA
> > driver was changed to implement auto-mute.  For example, if something is
> > plugged into the headphone socket then speaker output (assumed to be
> > line-out) should be muted.  Depending on the board configuration, other
> > auto-muting may occur.  You may need to disable this feature.
> > 
> > Ben.
> 
> Hi Ben, Jonathan,
> 
> Effectively, it seems this new auto-mute feature was the reason of the audio 
> gone. KMix was not showing it by default, so I added the new control in 
> Properties.
> 
> No headphones or similar were plugged in to any audio output, so I suspect 
> there must be another issue, maybe some BIOS setting, for this feature to be 
> enabled and active by default.
>
> So thank you very much to both of you for your help, it seems this one can be 
> closed.

If the driver is auto-muting when nothing is plugged in, that seems to
be a bug which should be fixed.

Can you provide the information listed under 'Reporting problems' at
<http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug_Intel_HDA>?

Ben.

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