[Bradford] Restarting sound

[Philip Wyett]

Excellent, happy it's working for you now!

I'll wait until I see you in person to ask what you were listening too
for the lady opposite to be scowling - Certainly not Barry White by the
sounds of it! :-D

Regards

Phil

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:57 +0000, David Carpenter wrote:
> Just a nice resolution to this...
> 
> Still haven't found a good way to restart sound, BUT, after upgrading to
> 8.04 recently, I had to go and re-configure etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and
> thought I'd try the line used by Phil, and what do you know - it works!
> 
> So despite trying lots of other 'options snd-hda-intel model=' in the
> past - looks as though, thanks to Phil, I've stumbled on the right one
> for this machine!
> 
> I can now listen to music on the train (which is how I first discovered
> the problem as I sat with my headphones on, happily listening away,
> wondering why the woman across from me kept scowling!)
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:34 +0000, Philip Wyett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 08:45 +0000, David Carpenter wrote:
> > > Can anyone help with this...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On my Ubuntu Laptop when I plug in the earphones it does not mute the
> > > main speakers. 
> > > 
> > > I've found various suggestions as to what should go in the:
> > > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
> > > file, and I can get it to either mute the speakers but allow headphones,
> > > OR have sound through the speakers but no mute when the headphones go
> > > in.
> > > 
> > > SO...most of the time I have the speakers muted and just plug in
> > > earphones if I need to listen to anything.
> > > 
> > > This is fine!
> > > 
> > > When I want to change the configuration I can just go in to:
> > > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
> > > comment out a line and then reboot the machine.
> > > 
> > > QUESTION (at last!)
> > > Is there a way to get the machine to recognise the configuration change
> > > without rebooting?
> > > I have tried:
> > > sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
> > > and that doesn't seem to work
> > > I have tried just loggin out and logging back in again and that does not
> > > work. Seems only a reboot does it.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions? 
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > David
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > I also found only doing a reboot did the trick in applying new settings.
> > Now I have got the jack-sensing beat on my Fujitsu-Siemens I only ever
> > apply the required line every upgrade if it is needed.
> > 
> > What is your laptop?
> > What is the sound chip?
> > 
> > The line I have to apply to get it all working on the Fujitsu is a
> > Compaq - Go figure. :-)
> > 
> > options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo-nb0763
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Phil
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