HDA jack retasking

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Raman Gupta <rocketraman at 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.

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.  :-(

Thanks for pointing out this exists BTW.  Even just having this work on reboot
is pretty useful to me.  :-)

-T.C.