when you plugged the headphone and the driver return false when it cannot detect headphone
pulseaudio switch to speaker profile and turn off the headphone volume Control.13 { iface CARD name 'Front Headphone Jack' value false comment { access read type BOOLEAN count 1 } http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/tree/src/modules/alsa/mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf [Jack Headphone] state.plugged = no state.unplugged = unknown ; This profile path is intended to control the speaker, let's mute headphones ; else there will be a spike when plugging in headphones [Element Headphone] switch = off volume = off -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1225789 Title: [FUJITSU AMILO La1703 audio playback] Audio volume extremely low To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1225789/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs