There is no fix yet. And realtek engineer told me that he met the similar problem on the Dell laptop before, but it was proven a hardware problem (headphone can't be detected).
So does the headphone work well under Windows on your machine? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1447909 Title: external mic not detected on machines with alc256 codec To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1447909/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs