On 10/12/2009 08:54 AM, Grant wrote: >> My Dell Vostro 1320 doesn't mute the external speakers when headphones >> are plugged in. These guys seem to have fixed the problem by >> upgrading to the latest version of alsa-driver... > > I can confirm that the problem is fixed in 2.6.31-gentoo-r2, but I'd > really like to keep my hardened kernel. Any other ideas as far as > getting alsa-driver to work?
Wait a minute, are you installing the alsa-driver package from portage? Don't do that, use the alsa drivers that come with the kernel sources instead.