James, I have inspiron 8100 with the same problem (maestro3 driver). The line-out via docking station doesn't work. It has been discussed in yahoo's dell laptop newsgroup (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/) and if I recall it correctly, there are some register settings sound driver has to make in order to route audio to is docking station's connector. The driver developer(s) could not figure it out and left it at that.
BTW, what kernel are you using with your 4100? -Vlad On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 10:29, James Peverill wrote: > I have sound working on my inspiron 4100 notebook, but I use the > notebook in a docking station which has a headphone jack on it. This > jack doesn't seem to work. I've tried enabling all outputs and options, > and turning up volumes, but I don't get anything out of that port. The > sound out of the notebook's onboard speakers works fine, as does sound > out of the notebook's onboard headphone jack. Is there some kind of > hidden device that I am not seeing? The alsa driver doesn't report any > other output devices. Under "that other OS" this other jack works the > same as the onboard jack. I always assumed it was just an analog type > connection to the other jack, but apparently it is a bit more sneaky > than that. Any ideas? > > james > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- _____________________________________________________________ Vladislav Grinchenko http://home.comcast.net/~3rdshift/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus on quality, and productivity will follow. _____________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
