I have solved this problem by adding model=vaio to the options of the sound module snd_hda_intel. Now i can see various other capture devices and both the headphones and mic work perfectly. The only small niggle that remains is that the onboard volume control now modifies the volume of my Capture device rather than the main Master volume as it did before. Is there a way to specify a default device for volume control? Max Max Pimm wrote: > I have a fresh installation of debian testing (lenny) on a Sony Viao > VGN-FZ31Z. > > Alsa has installed correctly but has left me with two problems. > > 1) The laptop speakers work fine but when i plug headphones into the > laptop sound continues to come from the onboard speakers and not the > headphones. Strangely enough the microphone jack does work (with > problems). I have a dual boot system and the hardware works fine with > my other OS. > > 2) The quality of the microphone is pretty bad. When using the > microphone jack I can hear a lot of hiss any only just hear my voice > in the background. When using the onboad microphone i only get hiss. > > Any ideas how can i go about debugging and resolving these problems? > > Here is my system information... > > My kernel is 2.6.24-1-686 > I have debian packages installed for alsa-base and alsa-utils, both in > version 1.0.16-1 > > The audio controller (output from lspci -v) is: > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD > Audio Controller (rev 03) > Subsystem: Sony Corporation Vaio VGN-FZ260E > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 > Memory at fc400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel > Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel > > The output from amixer is: > > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 127 > Mono: > Front Left: Playback 108 [85%] [-14.25dB] [on] > Front Right: Playback 108 [85%] [-14.25dB] [on] > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 > Capabilities: pvolume > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 255 > Mono: > Front Left: Playback 185 [73%] [-14.00dB] > Front Right: Playback 185 [73%] [-14.00dB] > Simple mixer control 'Digital',0 > Capabilities: cvolume > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Capture 0 - 120 > Front Left: Capture 71 [59%] [5.50dB] > Front Right: Capture 71 [59%] [5.50dB] > > > All help greatly appreciated. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
