Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:31:46 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: "Lion G." <liontanker@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone Message-ID: <45A66672.1090704@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070111155332.GC3657@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <BAY21-F22038C9A959D56253D9756CCB10@phx.gbl> <20070111155332.GC3657@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:29:45AM -0500, Lion G. wrote: > >> Hi all, I have a weird question. >> >> In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in >> the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop >> (and I would only hear music through the earphone) >> >> With my newest laptop (Acer Aspire 5050), >> the laptop speaker stays on no-matter-what. >> I would hear the same music in both >> the speaker and the earphone. >> >> I'm using Ariff Abdullah's snd_hda driver on 6.2-RC2. >> The driver reports: >> pcm0: <ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller> mem >> 0xc0000000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 >> pcm0: <HDA Codec: Realtek ALC883> >> pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20061210_0037> >> >> Another piece of info: >> The microphone hole has both the microphone symbol >> and the SPDIF symbol on it. Apparently the laptop >> uses the same hole for both plugging in a stereo microphone >> and plugging in a SPDIF device. >> >> Also, none of the items in the mixer helps: >> they raise or drop both the speaker+earphone volume simultaneously. > > This is not a software issue. > Some jacks are built with a make-and-break setup. With that, when > the plug goes in, it presses back a contact that functions as a > switch for some other circuit - in this case, one that drives > the onboard speaker - thus disconnecting it whil the plug is in. > Apparently your new piece of hardware does not have that feature. > Probably they were cheaping out by a few cents. > The only fix is to replace the jack. Unfortunately it is probably > built in, in such a way as to be very difficult to replace. Actually i had this same problem with the first version of Ariff's driver which went away when I used a later version. I would have thought it a hardware issue as Jerry suggests if I didnt have my system as a dual boot (it worked fine in windows.) are you using the latest version from http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ if not then its worth a try. it could be worth asking on freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org (the link listed suggests the the information you should supply. Vince > > ////jerry > >> I'm out of ideas. Has any one seen something like this? >> >> Thanks all! >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Get live scores and news about your team: Add the Live.com Football Page >> www.live.com/?addtemplate=football&icid=T001MSN30A0701 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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