On 08/18/2013 08:23 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Raman Gupta
<rocketraman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have Intel HDA Audio on my motherboard (Asus P9X79 PRO). This
> chipset has the capability to retask jacks for another purpose, for
> example changing a line out jack to a headphone jack.
>
> Has anyone successfully retasked an audio jack (specifically, on my
> motherboard, the blue Line Out jack) to a headphone?
>
> I found a post on pulseaudio-discuss re. this hda-jack-retask program
> which seems to imply it can be done, but it didn't seem to work (I
> didn't try every available combination however):
Did you try the version of this that is now included in the "alsa-tools"
package
in Fedora? It's called "hdajackretask", without the dashes. According to
the
changelog in that Ubuntu package, the alsa-tools version and the Ubuntu PPA
version are now identical.
Good find. I didn't realize alsa-tools now included this.
The alsa-tools version works for me, but only if I use the
"Install boot
override" function and reboot. The "Apply now" function appears to do
nothing,
as far as I can tell. :-(
Ok, the reboot worked to retask the jack here as well! Excellent.
Thanks for pointing out this exists BTW. Even just having this work
on reboot
is pretty useful to me. :-)
Glad we could help each other.
Next problem: getting PulseAudio to recognize that I have both
headphones plugged in (to the retasked jack) as well as regular
speakers, and switch between them at command.
PulseAudio shows two output Ports: "Analog Output" as well as
"Headphones", but both ports output to my headphones. Without the
retasking, both ports output to my speakers. Frustrating.
Regards,
Raman