[LAU] mute laptop speakers with Intel HDA

[gnome at hawaii.rr.com]

The reason you see the options for "caller ID" and "off hook" is that 
the Intel HDA chipset also includes a modem. My laptop uses Intel HDA, 
and I'm used to the modem part showing up as if it were an audio device.

The audio works on my laptop except for an inability to record from the 
mic input. Last I heard, ALSA was blaming the kernel, and kernel 
developers were blaming ALSA. Although I haven't tried it since my most 
recent kernel update.

$8 USB audio dongle? Where did you find such a thing? Tell me more.

David
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 11:34 am
Subject: Re: [LAU] mute laptop speakers with Intel HDA
To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>

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> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:54:46PM +0300, Michael Baranov wrote:
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > I've a very annoying problem with ALSA on my new Toshiba P205: I 
> can not
> > mute speakers when headphones are connected via a jack. There is an
> > option in alsamixer called 'headphone' that just enables the 
> sound in
> > the jack, but does NOT mute the speakers.
> > 
> > Can anybody help? lsmod and lspci output attached.
> > Ubuntu Gusty tribe 2, kernel 2.6.22
> > 
> > Other 'strange' things:
> > 1) option 'caller id'. No idea what it is.
> > 2) option 'off-hook'. No idea what it is.
> > 3) channel called 'speakers' does not control sound level or 
> mute the
> > speakers!
> > 
> 
> Ask on ALSA list, but, last I checked, hda-intel == useless peice 
> of shit.
> 
> I gave up after being told that there was no hope of hda-intel 
> ever working properly on linux. I use an external sound device (M-
> Audio FastTrack Pro USB) and it works beautifully. 
> 
> Even a cheap US$8 USB audio dongle worked well, and much better 
> than the hda-intel.
> 
> - -ken
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