Headphones not working

[Richard Allen]

On 12/31/2010 11:55 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 11:33 -0500, Richard Allen wrote:
>> On 12/31/2010 11:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 10:14 -0500, Richard Allen wrote:
>>>> I dont know what I did but suddenly my sound is broken.
>>>>
>>>> I'm running Fedora 14 (x86-64) on a Dell Latitude E6410.  The problem is
>>>> as soon as I plug in my headphones I loose the sound.  If I unplug the
>>>> headphones I get sound out of the built in speakers of the laptop.
>>>> After I lost sound I started experimenting with the settings in sound
>>>> preferences and I'm pretty sure I have tested all possible combinations
>>>> without success.
>>> Stupid question: are you sure the headphones actually work, e.g. when
>>> plugged into an MP3 player or HiFi? I've often wasted time futzing
>>> around with sound settings when the only problem was that my external
>>> speakers had turned off because of a power outage.
>>>
>>> poc
>> Not a stupid question.  But that was one of the first things I tested.
>> Headphones are fine :)
> I don't have the headphone problem, but I do have this one:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660370.
>
> I did have a problem with sound (Skype, IIRC) and the solution was to
> create /etc/modprobe.d/snd_hda_intel.conf containing:
>
>          options snd_hda_intel model=dell-s14
>
> Then reboot.
>
>
>> Richard.
>>
>>

I just tried this and while it did change the things available in the 
audio preferences menu it still does not fix my problem.   As soon as 
the headphones go in, all audio stops.

And its also strange that two days ago all was working fine with no 
modprobe.conf changes.