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Title: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: Madalin Andrei on June 13, 2015, 11:18:58 AM: So I think this is the fifth time i reinstalled LL 2.4 trying to solve my issue.

I have an Intel HDA ALC268 sound card on a Toshiba Satellite p200. On any Ubuntu/Debian based distro (LL included) I installed, the headphones won't work, while the speakers work just fine. I searched forums, documentation, installed the realtek linux driver, tried all that alsamixer - pulseaudio advice, on this last LL 2.4 fresh install I even installed the 3.15 kernel from here https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/installing-software/linux-lite-kernel/ (https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/installing-software/linux-lite-kernel/) .

Nothing, headphones don't work. I'm out of options. I was planning on making LL 2.4 my base OS, instead of Windows, but because of this issue I've delayed that.
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: rokytnji on June 13, 2015, 03:15:48 PM: What in terminal does

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cat /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
show? Just poking and hoping here. If a headphone readout shows in the text file. See if it says false anywhere on headphone. Might need too change to true.
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: Madalin Andrei on June 13, 2015, 03:47:52 PM: Thanks for your response. So I looked at the feedback from the command you posted and found this:
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control.23 { iface CARD name 'Mic Jack' value false comment { access read type BOOLEAN count 1 } } control.24 { iface CARD name 'Line Jack' value false comment { access read type BOOLEAN count 1 } } control.25 { iface CARD name 'Front Headphone Jack' value false comment { access read type BOOLEAN count 1 } }Haven't tested the microphone jack, but apparently it doesn't work also.
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: rokytnji on June 13, 2015, 05:08:14 PM: Make a backup 1st of asound.state

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sudo cp /var/lib/alsa/asound.state /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.old
then cd into /var/lib/alsa like so, and make sure your backup was made a listed

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cd /var/lib/alsa
Hit enter/return key

then

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ls
to list what is in alsa folder. Your asound.state.old should now be listed if you follwed my steps right.

Then while staying in terminal (while inside of folder /var/lib/alsa) .

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sudo leafpad asound.state
Edit any false entries to true. See if it fixes anything. Reboot may be necessary after this edit. You will be unmuting ports and cards and jacks
with what I am showing you. You have the original as a backup in case you screw
up. You can always use it to copy and paste the original text back into
your edited asound.state to start over in case you scew up for any reason.

Good Luck. Happy Trailz, Rok
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: Madalin Andrei on June 13, 2015, 06:17:23 PM: Tried it. Nothing. :(
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: rokytnji on June 13, 2015, 11:49:43 PM: Quote from: Madalin Andrei on June 13, 2015, 06:17:23 PM
Tried it. Nothing. :(

Sorry. It was a poke and hope on my end. I had my own drama today as well

http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5656
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: Jerry on June 14, 2015, 01:05:19 AM: Known issue on the P200 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1213485

Try the #4 fix. File is in: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: Madalin Andrei on June 14, 2015, 07:43:28 AM: It worked! I applied the fix, rebooted the laptop and it worked. Thank you all!
Title: Re: ALC268 speakers ok no headphones sound
Post by: Jerry on June 14, 2015, 08:50:59 AM: You're welcome :)

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