Another noob asking for halp! (Sound issue)

OK, so it's like this. Internal speakers work fine but when I plug a pair of headphones in everything goes quiet. However, if I pull the headphone pin out of the jack a touch (1mm) then they start working but so do the internal speakers. This also happens when I use external speakers

I want it so that when I plug head phones in normally, sound only comes from the headphones/externals

P.S. It all works fine in Windows, so the jack & pin aren't broken.

 

Have you tried messing around with the sound mixer?

 

To better help debug these kinds of issues, it's useful if you include the laptop/model, linux distribution, and version, with your post. Your problem sounds like an alsa driver issue. I would try the most recent version of the alsa driver, which means for most users, trying the most recent version of their respective Linux distribution. I would then edit the alsa configuration file as described below and see if it will work correctly. If your system is the laptop in your signature, Asus G50VT, and you're using the Ubuntu linux distribution, then you can try the following to configure the alsa driver to better work with your sound hardware;

1) Edit your alsa configuration file as a superuser. To do this you can open a terminal and type in;

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

The system will ask for your password before continuing. The Gnome editor program will then open with the alsa configuration file for editing. If the file is empty and you're using the most recent version of Ubuntu try;

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

2) Towards the end of the configuration file you may have a line that begins with "options snd-hda-intel". If you do have it, edit it so that it is the following;

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=g71v probe_mask=1

(If you don't have a line that begins with "options snd-hda-intel" in your alsa configuration file, simply add the whole line to the end of the file)

3) Reboot and try to see if your headphone jack works correctly now.

If it still doesn't go through the exact same procedure and when you edit your alsa configuration file try the following line;

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=asus-mode3

Here's some more reading;

Asus G50V Linux Laptop Wiki
Ubuntu HDA Intel Sound Howto
Ubuntu Root Sudo Howto

Good Luck..

 

Thanks for the replies guys, I will try these out tomorrow.

Rep given!

 

Now it's worse, I added the line to the config file and now it boots to the pulsating Ubuntu logo but then stops. I took a photo on my camera but the card readers stopped working as well

Here are the last couple lines:

N.B. Ubunutu is booting from the ExpressCard slot

 

Can you describe what you did to initially setup your system to boot from the ExpressCard slot? Also do you run your Linux distro from a card in your ExpressCard slot?

 

That usually mean you placed the code in the wrong spot or added something. Ill post mine up tonight when I get home. I have a G50VT-A2 very similar to yours but mine has a 9800 GTS instead of the 260.

 

I used this guide and it worked perfectly, I would boot Ubuntu (persistently) from the ExpressCard SSD.

I installed the graphics drivers, thunderbird & bashee. But later found the problem with the headphones so posted here.

@joe, Im 99% sure I added it to the right place, but surely a sound issue wouldn't stop it from booting to GNOME at all?

 

You're correct that by changing the alsa configuration file, it won't affect booting the system. The worst thing that would happen would be that your system wouldn't produce any sound output at all.

Your problem now is one of the system not booting at all. Did you include all of the information in the error message? Usually there's a more specific error message before the aufs mount failed message. Something that begins with "mount: error mounting"

Lastly, I don't know if you accidentally edited something else. You didn't by chance issue either of the following commands?

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

or

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst