Comment # 26 on bug 928394 from Leslie Satenstein

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #20)
> (In reply to Leslie Satenstein from comment #18)
> > I reverted to a system that used version 5 of pulseaudio and alsa, and the
> > headphone jack works.
> > 
> > Please look at the last 4 files. 
> > 
> > Final two show the results when the headphone jack works.
> 
> No, it doesn't "work" if your attached alsa-info.sh outputs are correct.
> It's merely a bug of older PulseAudio that ignored "Front Headphone Jack"
> state.
> 
> > Headphone out (not plugged), Headphone IN jack and working 
> >
> > To generate this for you, I reverted to a system that used versions 5 of
> > pulseaudio and alsa.
> > 
> > From non-working system (pulseaudio 6 and alsa 6)
> > re-examine Without headphones plugged. and headphones plugged.
> 
> What is "alsa 6"...?  There is no such thing.
>  
> > You have results on the same hardware.
> > 
> > The only thing I can do is show you the *rpm files for alsa and pulseaudio.
> > 
> > With the last 4 files you do have enough to go on.
> 
> If so, again, it's a hardware problem.
> 
> Look at the state of "Front Headphone Jack" in both states.  Both showed
> like:
> 
>         control.43 {
> 		iface CARD
> 		name 'Front Headphone Jack'
> 		value false
> 
> This indicates that the headphone jack wasn't detected in the driver.
> When a jack detection is provided by the driver, PulseAudio does automatic
> switching between the outputs per jack state.  And, the older PA didn't work
> well with this jack, so it *looked* as if it's working; namely, the
> headphone output wasn't touched.  That is, what the result was old PA was a
> bug of PA, and it got "fixed" by this update.
> 
> Check your hardware setup again.  There can be a BIOS setup problem.
> 
> Or, check alsa-info.sh outputs again.  If "Front Headphone Jack" state
> changes, then the situation is different.  The consequence here was derived
> just from the alsa-info.sh outputs you attached here.


Good morning from Montreal Canada.
My last 4 attachments show the in/out, working/nonworking  runs of alsa-info.sh
I have updates to the working pulseaudio headphone jack blocked from updates.

Updates to most recent releases of the kernel have not affected that working
alsa/pulseaudio or the others. 

Comment. My main system has 5 hard disks, SUSE is on it's own as is Fedora and
Windows 8.1. If the headphone jack hardware is the cause of the error, it would
have impacted windows8.1.