Nonsensical jack sensing - A bug day idea

[Dan Chen]

Hi,

I recommend creating a wiki page with links to the generated
URLs by alsa-info.sh[0] and sorting by SSID, e.g.,

SSID      ..     codec+revision      ..      output url

Please be aware that the jack rework upstream is very active
and, thus, those changes will not apply cleanly to any linux
source shipped in Ubuntu. It's best to be running the kernel
team's latest 2.6.29-rc vanilla kernel builds[1] if you're
testing, because any changes made will be pushed to the
sound-2.6 git tree.

If you're not already familiar with hda-verb, I'm willing to
donate an evening or several to walk people through it.

[0] http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
[1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/


--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Philip Wyett <philwyett at gmx.com> wrote:
Users of Linux with ALSA on laptops and other mobile devices have for
years often been presented with the fun and games of sound working great
but then plugging in headphones leaves you with no sound or sound coming
out of speakers and headphones etc. This annoys many and makes distros
look poor to the new user in some cases. Could we have a bug day for and
in conjunction with ALSA to collect as much per user hardware and what
they set to fix it i.e. the 'options' in alsa-base to maybe allow the
ALSA project to make things better for all.