Saturday, April 2, 2011

Dell Vostro 1014 Sound Issue in Debian Wheezy

When I plug my headphone into my Dell vostro 1014 (laptop) the laptop speaker was not getting muted. My laptop had Debian Wheezy installed.

The following Ubuntu forum threads shed some light on this and gave hope that it is possible to get things working.1. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1467218.html
2. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1457859.html

My guess was the problem was due to some driver issues as I was using the free kernel that was shipped with Wheezy. After some experimenting the following solved the problem.

1. Adding the line "options snd-hda-intel model=dell-vostro position_fix=0 enable=yes" at the end of the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
2. Installing liquroix kernel, 2.6.38-2.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64, solved the issue

(Installing firmware-linux package did not solve the issue as of today.)



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