On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 12:57 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Teutone <whiteteutone@gmail.com> [2014-11-21 01:55 +0100]:
> 
> > On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 17:27 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > Please try as user:
> > > 
> > > $ mkdir $HOME/.pulse
> > > $ echo "autospawn=no" >> $HOME/.pulse/client.conf
> > > 
> > > This prevents pulseaudio to restart when it's down.
> > > 
> > > To shutdown pulse:
> > > $ pulseaudio -k
> > > 
> > > Please test sound now.
> > > 
> > > To restart pulse:
> > > $ pulseaudio -D
> > > 
> > > Elimar
> > > -- 
> > >   Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-)
> > >          Friedrich Nietzsche
> > > 
> > 
> > Okay I tried this, but no difference to sound test with pulseaudio.
> > Built in speakers work, headphone jack does not play a single sound,
> > nothing. Speakers get auto-muted when I plug in my headphones though.
> 
> This looks like a driver bug. As I remember you're using linux-3.16.
> It's pretty new, though. In sid we have linux-3.17 images which
> worth to try. If that not helps I'd forward this bug to the kernel
> team with your attention please. To browse the ALSA BTS [0] might be
> helpful as well.

I looked through the changelogs on
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/linux/linux_3.17-1~exp1_changelog and http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.17 and could not find any news about audio drivers - plus I read the warning about data loss and experimental state of 3.17, and I'm feeling unsure if it's safe for me to use it, I am not that good at Linux yet... if you say it's relatively safe could you give me a few hints how to do the kernel update safely or point me to the direction where I can read about how to do it, please?

> 
> > Only difference, I can't use media buttons to control volume when
> > pulseaudio is turned off (guess that's normal)
> 
> Thats not normal. My thinkpads are working with a straight ALSA. For
> me there is no advantage to run pulseaudio. The "media buttons" are
> working correct. Same on my powerbook (Yeah, it's PPC arch ;-)).

Hmm. That's strange then... something seems really wrong with this
Macbook ***** :P I recently noticed that I have a slight sound problem
with my speakers, too - in Mac OS + Windows I get decent sound from
right and left built-in speaker; in Debian Jessie I only have the right
speaker working correctly, but the left one is a lot quieter... as if
it's also not working 100% with the driver...

> 
> [0] https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug

I'm unable to open that site - it seems to be down? Even with simple
http:// it just gives me a 404 Error... is it reachable for you?

Teutone