Headphone jack sense doesn't work on MacBook Pro 15" unibody (5,1 late 2008)

On my Macbook5,1
"ramvi@ramvi-laptop:~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
MacBookPro5,1"
the sense doesn't work as the title says, but I can't get sound through it either. What can I do to help out?

Running Karmic final

Duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/462098 ?

Install linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic and reboot.

sorry but i have already installed linux-backports-modules but the problem is the same.
I will try to install new pulseaudio 0.9.20 manually

@viniciolindo
l-b-m-a-k-g is only one part of the workaround, and I mistakenly mistriaged this bug earlier.

I've developed a patch against alsa-driver-1.0.22.1 which should fix this (which I've attached to this bug), which you can test as follows:

First make sure you don't have any versions of linux-backports-modules-alsa installed:

apt-cache --names-only search linux-backports-modules-alsa | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | xargs sudo apt-get remove --purge

Now download alsa driver source and the patch, and compile and install a patched version of the driver:

cd ~
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.22.1.tar.bz2
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/174251/alsa-driver-1.0.22.1-mb5.patch
tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.22.1.tar.bz2
patch -p0 < alsa-driver-1.0.22.1-mb5.patch
cd alsa-driver-1.0.22.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

Now you need to reboot your machine. If this works I'll push the patch upstream and hopefully we can get it applied to linux-backports-modules-alsa as well.

for me this patch is perfect! thank's

No worries, thanks for the feedback.

Hey,

Now the headphone jacket is recognized by the sound preferences, and that is really good!
However, I do not seem to be able to switch between the external speakers and the headphone jacket?

thanks for the patch!!

Yess. I can change to external speaker!!.

yeah,
this works perfectly for me!

thank you very much!

my problem was, that i've heard the sound from both, the speakers and the headphones.
this patch solved my problem, thanks again!

This patch works beautifully for disabling analog line out (and muting my internal speakers) but it seems to disable/break the digital out ability. Before installing the patches alsa-backport I was able to switch to a profile and see red light coming out of my headphone jack. I'm at home now with the optical wire only to find that I can't select a a hardware profile in my sound options that will enable this.

This patch doesn't change any of the digital pins or mixer elements, so this is perhaps more likely a bug in ALSA itself or pulseaudio I would say.

For the record; this patch does not seem to do anything on my MacBook5,1

Sorry, I spoke too soon. It actually works flawlessly. Turns out I had the model=mbp3 string that used to be recomended in my alsa-base.conf. Removing that made the patch work.

+1 for this patch. Works great on my MacBook 5,1

Works also for me. Thank you Alex.

No worries, glad I could help.

2010/3/5 Νίκος Αλεξανδρής <email address hidden>:
> Works also for me. Thank you Alex.
>
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> Headphone jack sense doesn't work on MacBook Pro 15" unibody (5,1 late 2008)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437150
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Right, I don't have this patch installed, but jack sense now works for me using my MB 5.1 (Late 2008) on Lucid. Alex, did you get the patch upstream or is it just fixed coincidentally? Can someone else confirm?

@Iain - yes patch is upstream, was accepted into 2.6.33 and the most 2.6.32 stable update as well, hence why it is in Lucid.

Marking as fix released for Lucid and linux-backports-modules for Karmic as well as was just pushed to karmic-proposed.