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"Front Headphone Jack" ALSA kcontrol name not picked up by PulseAudio

Bug #1020471 reported by David Henningsson
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
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David Henningsson
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David Henningsson
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Bug Description

[SRU Justification]
Impact: Some hardware have no automatic jack detection for headphone to userspace, so when you plug headphones in, your media keys and indicator will still control the speaker's volume. This affects several machines currently being enabled by the HWE team.

Testcase: Have an affected machine, i e one that has a "Front Headphone Jack" kcontrol (as seen by "amixer contents"), open gnome sound settings, and plug headphones in. If the bug is fixed, the headphone port will now be visible and selected.

Regression potential: If there is a "Front Headphone Jack", but for some reason this is non-functional due to a kernel driver or hardware problem, there is a chance that the headphone port, which was manually selectable, now is always invisible.

Many desktops have headphone on the front and line outs on the back. Sometimes this means that the alsa kcontrol for the headphone jack is labelled "Front Headphone Jack", but the volume controls are only "Headphone Playback Volume", i e, without the "Front" prefix.

Consider backporting

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=12a53524b3bdbae2dce7c9fd507561633d3beaec
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=47b31ce6ad744de9595eb4d5366d25b40c5d3455

..to fix it. It would enable jack detection between speakers and headphones for these devices.

See original description
David Henningsson (diwic)
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote :

Note: PulseAudio 2.1 will include these patches. Once PulseAudio 2.1 is released, it should be packaged in Quantal. After that we can consider SRUing this patch.

Anthony Wong (anthonywong)
tags: added: blocks-hwcert-enablement
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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote :

2.1 has now been released into quantal.

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote :

Pushed to branch, to be included at next upload.

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Fix Committed
David Henningsson (diwic)
description: updated
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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote :

I think this one got lost in the shuffle. David, any idea of what the status of this is in Precise?

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee: nobody → David Henningsson (diwic)
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → David Henningsson (diwic)
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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote :

I uploaded the SRU for precise at Nov 9th - and this patch is in there - but it's been sitting in queue since:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+queue?queue_state=1&queue_text=pulseaudio

David Henningsson (diwic)
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu Quantal):
status: New → Fix Released
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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello David, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pulseaudio into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
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TienFu Chen (ctf) wrote :

This bug is fixed with pulseaudio 1.1-0ubuntu15.2, the jack detection works now.

tags: added: verification-done
tags: removed: verification-needed
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Update Released

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2

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pulseaudio (1:1.1-0ubuntu15.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * 0622-Front-headphone.patch:
    Fix "Front headphone Jack" not being picked up by PulseAudio
    (LP: #1020471)
  * 0623-resampler-Fix-volume-on-downmix-to-mono.patch:
    Fix clipping audio on downmix to mono (LP: #416190)
  * 01PulseAudio:
    Don't mute Bluetooth devices on suspend, they might remain muted
    after resume (LP: #1038084)
  * 0624-alsa-mixer-Add-Phantom-Jack-support.patch:
    This will allow us to work better with devices on the backport
    stack by making use of a Quantal kernel feature (if it exists).
    (LP: #946232)
  * 0625-alsa-mixer-Add-a-few-more-machines-to-internal-mic-w.patch:
    Add a few more machines to the internal mic whitelist
    (LP: #1076840) (LP: #1073420)
 -- David Henningsson <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:31:19 +0100

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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