Sound for Headphones in Ubuntu 10.04 on some Dell laptops

daniel —Mon, 07/26/2010 - 11:38am

The only issue I had with installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my Studio 17 was that the headphone jack didn't seem to output any sound. A quick googling solved the issue:

From LinuxForums.org
Hi guys, I have a workaround to get sound in the headphone jack.
At the command line:
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Add the following line at the end of that file:
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6 options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic

Now, reboot and that's it, you should have sound now for your headphones. Enjoy!

(Verified on Ubuntu 12.04 on 9/19/2012)
(Verified on Ubuntu 13.04 on 5/17/2013)

Comments

Ubuntu 10.10

Submitted by daniel on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 8:22am

This works (was required) for Ubuntu 10.10 as well.

Sound for Headphones in Fedora15 on some Dell laptops

Submitted by daniel on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 11:57am

Problem persists to Fedora 15.

Add same line to this file:
/etc/modprobe.d/dist-alsa.conf

Ubuntu 11.10

Submitted by daniel on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 9:51am

Necessary again, however another line is needed as well to get the microphone working:
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic

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