Strange Sound switching problem and soluton « Irfan’s Corner on the Web

30Jan/080

Strange Sound switching problem and soluton

I've had this problem once before, I think in OpenSUSE 10.3, now in Debian I'm getting it again: On my Dell Inpsiron 6400 Laptop, when I plug in any pair of headphones, the sound does not switch from the laptop speakers to the headphones, rather the sound continues to play from the laptop speakers.This is a very annoying problem. But despair not, I have a workaround. Whenever you want to use headphones, simply kill all sound applications, and unload the snd_hda_intel module (In case you use Intel HDDA Sound). Plug in your headphone, and load the snd_hda_intel module again via modprobe. Thats it! Now your sound should be coming through the headphones. Now even if you unplug your headphones, you will not hear sound from the speakers, rather you have to unload and modprobe snd_hda_intel again to get sound from the speakers.Whats strange is that I did not have this problem a few weeks ago on the same Linux installation. But anyway now that I have a work around it doesn't matter. Its always fun to load/unload modules