Ubuntu – Want sound only to headphones, when it plugged in, and in speakers else

12.04aspireheadphonessound

I installed 12.04 today.
It worked on 11.10.

Now if headphones was plugged in on startup, they works, but if I unplug it, speakers don't work.
If headphones wasn't plugged before startup, sound is in speakers and in headphones at the same time.

Laptop is Acer aspire 5930.

Card: HDA Intel
Chip: Nvidia MCP77/78 HDMI 

riad@riad-laptop:~$ cat /proc/asound/pcm 
00-00: ALC888 Analog : ALC888 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC888 Digital : ALC888 Digital : playback 1
00-02: ALC888 Analog : ALC888 Analog : capture 1
00-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1

Same problem in 12.10dev

Which additional info should I provide?

Best Answer

As ALC1200 and ALC888 seem to be very similar (see this German Wiki Entry) you can try my solution for the Intel HDA ALC1200 on my Acer Aspire 5920 G laptop. After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin from 11.10 my speakers continued to output the sound when plugging in headphones. In 11.10 the speakers were muted automatically when a headphone was plugged in.

I fixed it by adding a line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf :

options snd-hda-intel model=auto probe_mask=1

Now I've got a lot more options/controls when running alsamixer. One is "Auto-Mute Mode". Set this to "Enabled" if it does not work out of the box.

stehpan

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