Re: Sound issues with Dell Latitude 7490 (kabylake)

From: Jakob Alvermark <jakob_at_alvermark.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:36:41 +0200
On 10/1/18 6:43 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> While sound work out of the box (with headphone switching) on the 1-2 year
>> older Latitude 7270, it does not on my new machine.
>>
>> The internal speaker works fine. If I plug in external speakers in the
>> headphone jack, sound still goes to the internal speaker while a very load
>> buzz comes from the external speakers.
>>
>> Do we have a solution for this?
> I do not believe we have anything that detects stuff plugged into
> and removed from the newer sound stuff that needs switching to
> change from internal to external speakers.
>
> I think you need to do what I have to do when I plug in external
> speakers on my thinkpad x230:
> sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1
>
> And when I unplug them I have to do:
> sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=0
>
> to switch back to the internal speakers.


Hi Rod,


Can you post the output of 'sysctl dev.pcm' and 'sysctl dev.hdaa'
Received on Tue Oct 02 2018 - 05:36:44 UTC

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