When the jack is inserted the internal speakers stop making sound and the only analog out is the jack, as it’s common on laptops. But I want to address the two analog output individually so that I can:

  • Still select the speakers when headphones are plugged
  • Have different sounds come from headphones and speaker
  • Mix them with carla or other audio software

My alsa/pipewire settings are all default, I’m on a thinkpad t480s with fedora 38. My sound card is an intel hd audio card, with a realtek ALC257 analog chip.

I tried disabling auto_mute and rising the volume from alsamixer but nothing happens. Then I switching pipewire to “pro audio” but it doesn’t separate the analog outputs. I also tried setting the indep_hp hint from hdarackretask but it doesn’t change anything.

The hint enables a new “independent hp” option in alsamixer, but it can only be enabled by the cli and it doesn’t work either.

I can provide configuration files or other info if needed but since they are all pretty long I didn’t include them in the post. Also because I didn’t edit them so they are just fedora’s default.

Thanks

  • RagingToad@feddit.nlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have good experiences with managing inputs and outputs with pavucontrol, which has a nice GUI. You can choose output per application (I have multiple outputs, headset-microphone on jackplug for meetings, a USB device for HiFi headphones, and a USB device that goes into speakers for when I’m home alone and my noise doesn’t bother anyone - pavucontrol covers that).

    If you really want to go into the deep end you might try https://jackaudio.org/ but that’s a very deep end and I hope you won’t need it, but it’s very powerful.

    • edinbruhOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      From pavucontrol I can’t select the interfaces independently (it’s what I used to enable pro audio). And Carla uses jack, so no luck with jack either