> > I'm not sure I understood 30% of what you said but basically, this is a firmware problem that the kernel driver is trying to wrap its code around? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/pci/hda?id=9155f82a6a26da4a5b8d2d29f1d31836906b4712 You can specify options snd-hda-intel model=, nofixup to skip those pin fixup of these two patches if the jack detect of your HP don't cause any noise https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/pci/hda?id=b2c53e206967d01fd4fb6dd525f89ae738beb2e6 ALSA: hda - Disable Front HP jack detection on Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/pci/hda?id=8f2392142346f2754c8292a94cc62a157ed1e093 ALSA: hda - add quirk to detect CD input on Gigabyte EP45-DS3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20151102/379cc45d/attachment.html>