>> > >> > I'm totally stuck with a sound problem I fail to debug on my own. >> > >> > My setup: >> > Asus P5Q Motherboard with Realtec ALC1200 soundchip. Stereo speakers plugged in to the rear output and headphone speaker/mic combo plugged in to the front jacks. System: Ubuntu 12.10 >> > Desired behaviour: Sound is played back on headphones AND rear speaker. Front mic should "just-work" Asus P5Q specification Realtek ALC1200, 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC - Support Jack-Detection, Multi-streaming, and Front Panel Jack-Retasking Alt_playback is still not enabled to support multi streaming playback on realtec codecs >> > Problem 2: >> > This is the biggest problem. >> > As soon as I plug in the front mic, Inside gnome-alsamixer the volume for master, surround,center,lfe start to jump between on and off. Why is the Front mic jack controlling these values? Do you mean BIOS did not setup pin default correctly after asus-p5q model was removed? <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=commitdiff;h=6fdfa361282a69fc9bfea4dd7d6303adc9e4d6df;hp=4586b2b583e9bb3df8cf5586469c2c19bd6b31d2">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git;a=commitdiff;h=6fdfa361282a69fc9bfea4dd7d6303adc9e4d6df;hp=4586b2b583e9bb3df8cf5586469c2c19bd6b31d2</a> > How can I debug this behaviour? Post the output of alsa-info.sh > I just want them to stay the same, if the mic is plugged in or not. >> > Inside the gnome volume settings, the output port starts to jump between "Analog Output" and "Analog Headphones" >> >> This look like problem in Jack detection of the headphone and Mic Jack of front audio panel >> >> alsamixer -c0 >> >> Does the playback switch change rapidly on and off in alsamixer ? >> >> Do your computer chassis have a hda front audio panel and you connect them to the front audio connector of the motherboard according to the user manual ? >> >> Does it help if you disabled the automute switch ? >> > Thanks a lot. Your input helped me to at least work around the problem. My chassis has a HDA and an AC97 connector. The HDA connector was plugged in and correctly configured in BIOS. > I now use the AC97 connector (and changed the BIOS settings) and everything is working properly. Checking the front audio panel specification of your computer chassis Setting front audio panel to AC97 in BIOS of Asus motherboard change the miscellaneous bit of pin default of front HP and Mic Jack （i.e. misc = NO_PRESENCE) The alsa driver won't enable the unsolicited event on these nodes > > Regarding your questions: Disabling automute didn't help. And yes, the playback switch toggled rapidly. <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=261c2407401ca26fa17f05667ea68f51e12c5303">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=261c2407401ca26fa17f05667ea68f51e12c5303</a> Try disable trigger sense by codec->no_trigger_sense = 1; > > One thing I didn't test: I mistakenly plugged the rear speaker into the front channel jack (plugging the green connector into a green jack seemed so obvious). I don't know is this is the same channel as the headphone connector on the front panel... > > In AC97 mode it doesn't matter if I use the front channel jack or the rear channel jack (both at the rear of the computer) to connect my main speakers.