@Alex Murray: the patch seems to work which makes you the hero of the day! :) But here are some awkward things I've come up with (using Arch Linux - on Macbook Pro 5.1 - btw):
1) I don't know if this's related with the patch or not but alsaconf cannot found any sound cards, but the kernel seems to recognize and load all the necessary modules for the sound card 2) When headphones are plugged in, I've to mute and unmute the Headphone channel a few times in order to get sound from them. I don't know why this happens. But all in all, the jack sense is working! :) -- Left speaker doesn't work, controls mixed up on Apple MacBook[Pro] (5,1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337314 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in ALSA driver: Unknown Status in Mactel Support: Confirmed Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Reporting this bug for another user... In MacBook and MacBookPro 5,1 (aluminium, late 2008) the soundcard works out of the box only with headphones, and to turn speakers on it is necessary to manually set the 6 channels. In that case, sound is heard both on headphones and right and center speaker; the left speaker doesn't work yet. This bug is confirmed by several users, see the additional information attached. de...@raker:~$ lspci | grep -i audio 00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1) de...@raker:~$ grep Codec /proc/asound/card0/codec#* Codec: Realtek ALC889A _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

