Enabling front panel audio jacks in Ubuntu

When I moved my trade to Ubuntu 10.04 ‘completely’ last year, I had a tough time getting my desktop’s front audio panel.

It was a rather easy affair in Windows XP, I just had to enable a option using Realtek.But, in Ubuntu its not so straightforward albeit not complicated either.

All you have to do is, type the following commands in the terminal

1. Open the alsa-base.conf file for editing
   $ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
2. It prompts for the password, after entering it add the following line at the end of the file
   $ options snd-hda-intel model=auto 
3. Reboot

This should get it working.