If I’m going to use this laptop as a “media hub” I want to be able to use another source of output rather than the speakers on the laptop. Now, here’s the fix on how use your headphone jack as an output. My current build of Ubuntu does not respond when I plug in headphones.
A problem with other laptop has forced me to use my Toshiba Satellite A135-S4656 as my “media hub”. The laptop is running Ubuntu 8.04 (aka Hardy Heron). So what am I to do about my music? Luckily I had my mp3s backed up on a USB drive. As for playback I decided upon Amarok. As I’ve discussed in previous entries Ubuntu works very well, with some set backs. One is the use of sound.
Here’s a somewhat easy fix to your problems: Open up terminal and type in:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
You can copy this from your browser and past in terminal by hitting CRTL+SHIFT+V.
You’ll now get sent to the file for your sound preferences. Head down to the bottom of the screen and place below the last line of code:
options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo
Save the file and reboot the system. After you plug-in the headphones not only will you get sound from the jack, but the speakers will drop audio! You can also control the system sound volume (albiet jumpy) using the wheel by the headphone jack.
Enjoy!
Credit: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=616845&highlight=ALC861VD
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