Intel – Phocean.net / Computer Security Blog Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:17:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 Headphones not muting the speakers with a Gigabyte motherboard /2011/05/28/headphones-not-muting-the-speakers-with-a-gigabyte-motherboard.html /2011/05/28/headphones-not-muting-the-speakers-with-a-gigabyte-motherboard.html#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 21:22:32 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=1078 http://www.phocean.net/?p=1078 Continue Reading]]> It had been months since I had an weired issue with the embedded audio controller of my Gigabyte motherboard.

Plugin the headphones on the front panel of my box didn’t mute the output to the speakers, which nullified the purpose of having headphones.

I long thought that it was some hardware issue that I would have to sort some day by opening the box and checking the connections.

Yesterday, I decided to solve it for good and I started to google… and found out that it was a pure software issue!

The culprit sounded to be some unproper settings of the ALSA module and this Ubuntu guide just saved me.

I carefully followed the steps and it appeared that for my Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5, it was necessary to this line:

add options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-hp

to

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Ok, it did not go so smoothly as I picked out randomly models from the list until I find the right one (I had no idea of what was embbeded on my board). I hope this may help, as I have quite a lot of people with similar issues with all kinds of vendors.

]]> /2011/05/28/headphones-not-muting-the-speakers-with-a-gigabyte-motherboard.html/feed 2 Battery power and Compiz /2007/05/20/battery-power-and-compiz.html Sun, 20 May 2007 12:57:16 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=51 http://www.phocean.net/?p=51 I decided to drop Compiz since I found out (thanks to the Powertop utility by Intel) that it was power monger.

Result :

Compiz : 3h30

Metacity : 5h00

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