Re: headphone jack on Thinkpad T61?

[Matthias Kretschmer <kretschm%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:37:47AM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> On a Thinkpad T61 running 5.1_STABLE, the volume from the headphone jack
> is extremely low.  We've bumped up every gain value in sight (i.e.,
> anything with two number and a comma in mixerctl output...).  Any idea
> what to do about this?  (It took enough work to figure just how to
> turn the headphones on...)

I had problems with headphone jack on T61 with azalia.  Switching to
hdaudio solved the problem.  Do you use azalia?  Then try to build
a kernel without azalia and with hdaudio.

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Regards
Matthias Kretschmer