I have a similar problem, but not entirely the same...
My laptop usually change to the headphones when I put them in, but SOMETIMES it keeps playing on the speakers, killing all sound output and reloading snd_had_intel fixes the problem.
As I'm the only one in my office that doesn't hate metal, and I don't notice that my speakers are playing until someone starts yelling, I'm starting to get quite paranoid about it
- Another thing is that sound sometimes doesn't work at all (I can usually provoke this into happening by taking the headphones in and out a few times).
I use Ubuntu 6.10 (2.6.17 SMP) on a Latitude D620 (Core 2/ Intel 82801G).
Thanks in advance,
Dennis Du Krøger