@Daniel, I went back to my original config of Independ ON and saved it using alsactl. This caused the front headphone jack to stop working again.
Then I installed the backports package and rebooted.
After the reboot the front headphone jack now works correctly. No alsamixer change was needed. Thanks.
I see that the backports package increased the alsa driver level to 1.0.21 and added a new parameter named Smart 5.1.
It looks as if we have a solution to this problem, a least for Karmic. Could some others confirm this.
@Daniel,
I went back to my original config of Independ ON
and saved it using alsactl. This caused the front
headphone jack to stop working again.
Then I installed the backports package and rebooted.
After the reboot the front headphone jack now
works correctly. No alsamixer change was needed.
Thanks.
I see that the backports package increased the
alsa driver level to 1.0.21 and added a new
parameter named Smart 5.1.
It looks as if we have a solution to this problem,
a least for Karmic. Could some others confirm this.